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Orkney Island of Stronsay

Odin Geo Geo Eden, or Geo Odin,
Mr. Hume, Farmer, Hunton. Mr. Forbes Schoolmaster Stronsay Mr. A. Learmonth, farmer, New Millfield

This name applies to a little creek or Geo, of which Sir Walter Scott makes mention in the "Pirate", as having a superior kind of Dulce, or Dilish, which taken together with the waters of a well called "Kildengue" on the north end of this island were supposed to have great medicinal qualities, The Dulce of the Geo, or the waters of Kildengue are rarely if ever used at the present day, and so little intrest is now attached to either one, or the other, of these places, that they are rarely visited except by strangers, There is only one man on the island who knows the Geo and he is not Certain about its position. property of Col. [Colonel] Balfour Shapinshay.

Initialed J.Y.

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