Lerwick

From Lerwick to the Scilly Isles, the poor industrious classes were made the earliest victims.

The steamboat landed me at Lerwick, and I completed my journey—with my boxes—next day in an open boat.

The shipping from Lerwick sailed at dawn under protection, dispersed at dark, and reached the Norwegian coast at dawn.

I saw the ruines of one of these houses about half-a-mile from Lerwick, where a woman was for some years kept for this reason.

I have already made a quotation from Brand to show that it was at Lerwick as late as the latter part of the seventeenth century.