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berry, where we arrived in good time the next 

 morning, after a fatiguing journey, principally oc- 

 casioned by the badness of the road. Through the 

 kindness of Mr. Sheen a six-oared boat was quickly 

 ready, into which everything was stowed, and 

 after taking leave of our kind friend, whose obliging 

 manners I can never forget, we started for Ler- 

 wick, distant from this place about twenty-four or 

 twenty-five miles. 



The day being remarkably fine, and the tide in 

 our favour, we pulled merrily along the east side 

 of the main land until we arrived at Lunna, where 

 we landed the boxes, &c, and dragged the boat 

 across a narrow neck of land into the sea, by which 

 means we saved ourselves a long pull round. We 

 then proceeded past LunnaHead intoWalsey Sound, 

 and through that into Hog's Sound, which is a very 

 narrow passage between two rocks, with only a 

 sufficient depth of water at high tide, and entered 

 the harbour of Lerwick by the north passage at ten 

 o'clock at night. I chose this route on account 

 of its being the shortest, and I considered myself 

 extremely fortunate in getting through it in one 

 day. 



On the 15th I visited the island of Bressa, for the 

 purpose of collecting some Arctic Gulls, of which 

 I got a few adults and also some of the young. 



