Mr. Sewel 
Mr. Hand 
Mr. Willmot 
Mr. Letts 
Mr, Chaddock 
Mr. Ruft 
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Mens names. 
* Mr. Morris 
* Mr. Bates 
* died, Mr. Thompfon * 
Burton, apprentice 
Dobie, ditto *. 
* 
* 
N. B. All thofe mark’d had the gaol-diftemper. 
VII. An Account of the great Alterations which 
the IJlands o/Sylley have undergone fence the 
"Time of the Antients, who mention them , as to 
their Number , Extent , and Pofetion : In 
a Eetter to the Rev . Thomas Birch, D.D. 
Seer. R. S. by the Rev. Mr. Wm Borlafe, 
M. A. F. R. S. 
P.everend Sir, 
Read Feb. 8, ~T ~TAVING made a little tour to the 
175 " 3 ' } JL iBands of Sylley laft fummer, and 
finding them very different from what I imagin’d, 
and from the defcriptions given us of them, and the 
trade to them, by the ancients, had concluded them 
to be, you will excufe my fending you an observation 
or two, which occunfd to me relating to their natu- 
ral hiilory, and the confiderable alterations, which 
they mufc have undergone, fince they were idrft taken 
notice of in hiflory, and what I think may have been 
the caufe of tlrefe alterations. 
Thefe ifiands being fo noted among the antients, I 
expedlcd to find among the inhabitants a confcious 
efleeni 
