[2]. Reduced to extreme destitution, by the failure of crops, subscriptions are at present (1862) being collected to enable the inhabitants of Fair Isle to emigrate.
[3]. The original name is Fitfiel—probably the white mountain—fit signifying white, and fiel, fell or mountain. In the same way England was called Albion, from its white cliffs.
[4]. For a selection of these, see [Appendix].
[5]. Where the two Icelandic letters occur which are wanting in the English alphabet, they are here represented, respectively, by d and th.
[6].
“Di rado
Incontra, me rispose, che di nui
Faccia il cammino alcun per quale io vado.” L 19-21.
[7]. Pronounced Tingvatla.
[8]. In the same way a river in Perthshire is called Bruar; evidently from the natural rock-bridge by which it is spanned.