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Among the ancients the Orkades nesoi, also called Orcades insulœ, are the Orkneys, mentioned by Pliny, Mela, and Tacitus.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913
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Gerarde, who is doubtless Butler's authority, says elsewhere, that "in the north parts of Scotland, and the islands called Orcades," there are certain trees whereon these tree-geese and barnacles abound.
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Islands called Orcades, or vulgarly Orkney, being in number 30. subiect and adiacent to Scotland where we made prouision of fresh water; in the doing wherof our Generall licensed the Gentlemen and souldiers for their recreation to go on shore.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation, Vol. XII., America, Part I. Richard Hakluyt 1584
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Charles Pears working on an oil painting of 'R.M.S. Orcades'
Chas. Pears Steve 2010
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They that live in the Orcades are registered by [3145] Hector Boethius and [3146] Cardan, to be of fair complexion, long-lived, most healthful, free from all manner of infirmities of body and mind, by reason of a sharp purifying air, which comes from the sea.
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It will be afterwards equally rejected at Batavia and the Orcades, while it will be maintained, unguibus et rostro — with tooth and nail — at
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There was nothing legal in all this, and it ought no more to be quoted than anything which passed in Ireland or the Orcades.
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Isle of Maragnan, free from all hereditary diseases, or other contagion, whereas without help of physic they live commonly 120 years or more, as in the Orcades and many other places.
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One affirmes that it is Island: another, that it is a certeine Iland, where trees beare fruit twise in a yeere: the third, that it is one of the Orcades, or the last
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Fearing also least their fresh water should faile them, they cast all their horses and mules ouerboord: and so touching no where vpon the coast of Scotland, but being carried with a fresh gale betweene the Orcades and
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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