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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1756 edition. Excerpt: ... if I fall short of any one of my obligations to you, don't let it be imputed to my negligence, but to the number of those obligations, and the difficulty of levelling accounts where there is so much due: among the rest, since you are not contented with the stiort (ketch I have already given you of the Scilly Isles, I acknowledge my promise to give you a particular account of my little voyage to them, and instead of apologizing for not doing it sooner, I proceed to acquit myself of that engagement as well as I can. It is reckon'd only six or eight hours paflage (with a fair wind) from St. Michael's Mount to Account of the alterations tent, and position. Philos. Trans. which the Islands of Scilly have un-Vol. xlviii. Part I. for the dergone, as to their number, ex-year I753 pag. 55. B Scilly, Scilly, but we made it a great deal more. Putting off from the Mount in the Godolphin Sloop about seven in the morning, " in about ten hours we got a-breast of the Gulph midway from Penzance to the Islands, keeping at a proper distance from this large and dangerous rock; some call it the Wolf, either from its devouring so many vessels as split upon it, or more likely from the howling which the waves make continually round it. In all countries sailors claim a right of naming the Rocks and Shoals they meet with, and generally exercise that right with some reason and propriety: Mr. Addison, in his Travels, c observes that the Circean Promontory in Italy being " very "rocky and much exposed to the winds and "waves, gave the first rise perhaps to the howl"ings of Wolves and roarings of Lions that used "to be heard thence." The weather was at this time very moderate, the evening pleasant and open, and several large b May 25, 1752. a Hinc exaudiri...