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do Penance in the Kirk. This heinous Sin the pious 
Prieft calls Antenuptial Fornication. 
The Country is moft commodious for Navigation ; 
which makes me wonder it has been fo long ne- 
gle&ed, and that we have not even fo much as a Map 
of it. There are more than twenty fafe Harbours, of 
eafy Accefs, capable of receiving large Ships ; the 
moft remarkable of which are Lerwick or Breffey 
Sound ; HuraVoc and Balt a Sound on the Eaft 
Side, and Scalloway , Olifvoe , and Valley Sound on 
the Weft Side of the Country. The Coaft is all 
high and bold, and may be feen many Leagues from 
Sea. There are no Sands round the whole Ifland, 
and but few funken Rocks, and thofe very near the 
Shore 5 except one dangerous Shoal on the Weft 
Side, called Have de Grind , and fome Rocks on 
the N. W. above Water ; both which, as well as the 
whole Ifland, I have cxadly Purvey'd; and I think 
I may fay, without Vanity, that I can produce a very 
good Map of Zetland , which, I believe, may be of 
good Service to Navigation, efpecially this War- 
Time. — I fear I have now tried your Patience with 
my long incoherent Epiftle: I fhall therefore con- 
clude with my kind Love to all Friends ; who am, 
Hear Sir, 
Tour 7noft ajfechonatel 
l-Iumble Servant , 
Tho. Preflon. 
N. B. The Author has lately publifhed a very accurate Map of thefe 
