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and Bowls, verifying the Proverb, A Feaſt or a Famine in Scilly.

A Parſon having been at one of theſe Entertainments, by the Force of his Imagination, (like thoſe who fancy they ſee Figures, and the Forms of Animals, &c. in the Clouds) compared the different Shapes of theſe Iſlands, as they appear in the Map, to the various Diſhes in one of theſe Feaſts, as follows:

The Iſlands compared to a Feaſt.

1. St. Mary's, a Scate.
2. Treſco, a Side of Mutton.
3. Bryer, a dry'd Ling.
4. Sampſon, a Leg of Veal.
5. White Iſland, near it, a Sole.
6. Annet, a Lobſter.
7. Agnes, a Veniſon Paſty, near it, half a Gooſe.
8. Tean, a Capon.
9. St. Helen's, a Shoulder of Mutton.
10. Bigger White Iſland, a Bacon Ham.
11. St. Martin's, a Plumb Pudding.