CHAPTER VIII. 



THE FAROES AND ICELAND. 



Gannets' Breeding Places continued — Myggenses in the Fseroes 

 — Number of Gannets there — The three Icelandic Settlements — 

 Quotations from the Icelandic Naturahsts, Olafsen, Olavius, 

 Mohr, Faber — Probable Number of Gannets in Iceland. 



Myggences in the Fceroes. 

 The Early History of its Gannets. — Having now finished 

 with the nine Gannet settlements which are located around 

 the British Isles, it remains to treat of those further away, 

 viz., such as are in the Faeroes, in Iceland, and on the 

 east coast of Canada, where the existence of communities 

 of these birds has long been known. To begin with the 

 Gannetry on the Fseroes or Faroes (Danish, Fseroerne, 

 that is, " Sheep Islands "), which lie haK-way between 

 Iceland and the northern extremity of Scotland : in his 

 " Faerose and Faeroa Referata " [Description of the Islands 

 and Inhabitants of Foeroe],* 1673, Lucas Debes has cited 

 (p. 183) an ancient legend about the coming of the Gannets 



* " Faroae and Fseroa Referata." Published at Copenhagen in l(i73, 

 English translation, 1G76, German, 1757. 



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