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ftrous Precipices, and hideous Rocks, as bring ail 
Brobdingnag before your Thoughts. 
I doubt not but you are now liftening out for 
fome Account of Curioftties of Art and Nature, 
which mod; here are Strangers to j and yet this Ifland 
is not quite barren. In Winter the Sun fets foon 
after it rifes $ and in Summer it rifes again foon after 
its Setting 5 fo that the Nights at that Seafon are near 
as light as the Day ; as, on the contrary, the Day in 
"December is near as dark as the Night. About the 
Solftice, we fee, almoft every Night, the Aurora, 
Borealis , as I think you call it ; but we Seamen, the 
Northern Lights 5 which fpreads a broad glaring Ap- 
pearance over the whole Northern Hemisphere, and 
looks fomewhat terrifying to them that are not ufed 
to it. 
I fhall only juft mention, that a Comet has appear'd 
to us for fome time from the Weft, large and plain 
to the naked Eye. 
SIR , Leith , May 12. 1744. 
I N my laft from Zetland , I gave you a fhort Account 
of that Country. I fhall now give you fome more 
Particulsrs, as they occur to my Memory. 
The Ifland is called by the Dutch , Hitland ; by 
Us, commonly, Shetland'-, but the proper Name of 
it is Zetland 5 wherein there are thirty Parifh- 
Churches, and about eighty Gentlemens Houfes, 
befides the Towns of Lerwick and Scalloway : It was 
firft inhabited by the Bights or Bills, who were 
driven out by the Danes. Chriftian, King of Den- 
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