OR, 



SCOTTISH 

 FLOCKS AND HEEDS, 



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L 

 TO TOE 



" Merrily, merrily, goes the bark 

 On a breeze to the Northward free ; 

 So shoots through the morning sky the lark, 

 Or the swan through the summer sea." 



SCOTT. 



Departure from Aberdeen Voyage The Shetlands A Lively ' t Passenger 

 Cabin Councils Arrival at Lerwick A Peep at the Town Walk 

 to Voe The Lonely Muirs The Cows The Ponies Pony Life in 

 the Coal Mines The Sheep Wool Manufactures Improved Stock 

 in the Shetlands Back to Kirkwall. 



Me COMBIE, that standing menace to the vege- 

 "*" tarians, bade us good luck on the pier. In the 

 eyes of Captain Parrott and his men, the sea was of 

 course " as still as a duck-pond" ; but when we had 

 passed the " Granite" and the "Heather Bell," and 

 were fairly outside the bar, the prow of the " Van- 

 guard" began to dip ominously, and the ground-swell 

 told its tale in the bay. Oblivion seize those hours ! 

 Prostrate forms soon peopled all the couches and 



