176 BRITISH BIRDS. 



particular regard to in the following description, and have 

 everywhere taken notice of the Nature of the Climate 

 and soil, of the Produce of the places by sea and Land 

 .... and that in such variety as I hope will make 

 amends for what Defects may be found in my stile and 

 way of Writing ; for there's a Wantonness in Language 

 as well, as in other things . . . ." 



A second edition of this book was published in London. 

 1716, " very much corrected." To come, however, to 

 his more important work, the full title is as follows : — 



A late / Voyage / to / St. Kilda, / The Remotest of all 

 the / Hebrides, / or / Western Isles of Scotland. / With / 

 A History of the Island, Natural, Moral, / and Topo- 

 graphical. Wherein is an Account .of their / Customs, 

 Religion, Fish, Fowl, &c. As also a Rela- / tion of a 

 late Impostor there, pretended to be / Sent by St. John 

 Baptist. / By M. Martin, Gent. / London : / Printed for 

 D. Brown, and T. Goodwin : At the Black Swan and / 

 Bible without Temple-Bar ; and at the Queen's Head 

 against / St. Dunstan's Church in Fleet Street. 

 MDCXCVIII. 



1 Vol. 8vo. 



Collation : 1 p. Short Title -f- 1 p. Title, reverse of 

 both blank, + pp. 2, Address, -f PP- 4, Preface, -r pp. 4, 

 Contents, all unnumbered, -\- pp. 158, map,* and plate 

 of two birds to face p. 53. 



This, the first edition, of which a facsimile title page 

 is given opposite, is rare. 



The second edition is said to have been published in 

 1716. 



The fourth and best edition, which was reprinted in 

 Pinkerton's " Collection of Voyages and Travels," was 

 published in London in 1753. 1 Vol., 8vo. 



This latter work, according to " The History of the 

 Works of the Learned," Vol. V., was " very agreeable 

 to the curious, especially to such as have any true taste 

 for natural and experimental philosophy." 



* A fac-simile of the map is reproduced on page 179. 



