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| Jo Ben's 1529 "Descriptions of Orkney" | |
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CAVAY Cavay*, as if the Cheese [chief] Island, the best cheese is here. It is small but very suitable for cattle, without trees because of the violence of the winds blowing here. There is one house and two peasant's huts.
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