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a very simple and worthy set of men, and the women 

 either very handsome or intolerably ugly. Shawfield's 

 family is truly agreeable, and we all live together like 

 brothers and sisters. We have hopes of seeing Lady 

 Charlotte herself, should our vessel be wind-bound ; 

 but though the temptation is great, our eagerness to 

 reach the main point is still greater. 



"Monday Evening. 



" I must now think of finishing this long letter, 

 and shall fatigue you farther by giving you some 

 idea of our plan. It may hereafter be modified by 

 circumstances, but the outline will most likely remain 

 the same. You may communicate this or any other 

 part of the present letter to our folks, just as you 

 please and how you please. We sail to-morrow or 

 next day ; and after touching at another island, St 

 Kilda or the Lewis, we make direct for the Faroe 

 Islands, and reach them probably in eight or ten days. 

 There is as much to be seen in them as at Iceland. 

 Thence we go (perhaps changing our vessel) to Ice- 

 land ; and after travelling there about six or eight 

 weeks, we determine whether we return by the east 

 or west, and this must very much depend upon the 

 state of the privateering and the facility of obtaining 

 neutral ships to convey us. If we go by west, we 

 take a full view in the best season of the Hebrides, 

 Orkneys, &c., and conclude all by going to Iceland 

 for some time perhaps for a considerable time. If 

 we go by east or if, instead of making Iceland, we 

 go from Faroe to Norway, which is possible (and 



