Excerpt from Cambridge County Geographies: Orkney and Shetland Iwish to thank Captain Malcolm Laing of Crook for the photograph from Sir Henry Raeburn's portrait of Malcolm Laing, the historian Andrew Wylie, Esquire, Provost of Stromness, for the portraits of Dr Rae and David Vedder; and J. A. Harvie-brown: Esquire, Dunipace House, Stirlingshire, for the photograph of the Great Auk's resting-place. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.