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Six of the Winter Months; for the Year may be fa id 
to contain ten Months of Winter, and two of cold 
raw Weather. I thought it very abfurd, to hear the 
Inhabitants complain of Heat, at the fame InAant 
that I complain’d of Cold, and wifh’d for a great 
Coat. They are fo accuftom’d to ftormy bad Wea- 
ther, that they will venture to Sea in fmall Boats,- 
when you would not venture to crofs the Thames . — 
I fhall give yon a fhort Defcription of this Ifland. 
It is the Northermoft belonging to Scotland , fltu- 
ated between the Latitudes of 60 and 61 Degrees : 
its Length is, N. and S. 60 Miles j its Breadth 30; 
and fo divided into Head-lands and fmaller Iflands,. 
Creeks, Bays, Inlets, and Coves, &c. that you can- 
not place a Compafs on any the mod inland Parts 
of its Chart that (hall be Two Miles from the Sea $ 
which makes it extreme difficult to make a good 
Draught of the Ifland of which there is no Chare 
extant worth naming. 
During my long Stay, I have devoted fome of my 
(otherwife) idle Time to the making of Obfervations, 
and furveying the Place ; by which, and fuitabie In- 
formations, SjC. gain’d from the Inhabitants, I have 
attempted a Sea Chart, which, I flatter myfelf, may 
be of Ufe to our Navigators; who are all Strangers 
to the many fafe and good Harbours in this Ifland ; 
and feveral of them capable of receiving many large 
Ships. 
The Land is wild, barren, and mountainous, nor 
is there fo much as a Tree or Bufh to be feen. The 
Shores arc difficult, and, in many Places, inacceffiblc, 
rude, deep, and Iron-like; the Sight of which ftrikes 
the Mind with Dread and Horror; and fuch mon- 
ftrous 
