“And I, cut off from the world, remain / Alone with the terrible hurricane”

[larryhammer]

Links for a Friday. Because Friday.

For cmcmck: an 1835 Poetical Description of Orkney.

Maps with literal translations of the names of countries, with spreadsheet of footnotes. (via)

"When Twenty-Six Thousand Stinkbugs Invade Your Home"; or, Invasive Species Are Ick. Content warning: BUGS. (via)

---L.

Subject quote from “The Hurricane,” William Bryant.

Comments

[cmcmck]

Thanks :o)

I ran across a copy of this in the Orkney library archive in Kirkwall a few years back.

I'd love to pick up a hard copy for myself.