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Zetland

/ ˈzɛtlənd /

noun

  1. the official name (until 1974) of Shetland


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He travelled—on foot principally—from Inverness to Thurso, and is going on to-morrow to Zetland.

A native of Zetland, a few years ago, was received into the hospital of Edinburgh, labouring under true elephantiasis.

Come, my good master and dame, this may be Scottish jesting, but it sounds strange in Zetland ears.

Among the common people of Zetland, their existence still forms an article of universal belief.

There is certainly something very extraordinary to a stranger in Zetland corn-mills.

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