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P. 159. v. 40. In the collection intitled "Certayne Matters," &c. 1597, it is said, "In Schetland the isles called Thule, at the time when the sunne enters the sign of Cancer, for the space of twenty dayes there appears no night at all." Defoe likewise alludes to the lingering of the sun beams on the hills of Shetland in the following passage: