THE
PREFACE.
THE Reader probably will be ſurpriſed at an Account given of Iſlands very little known, but by the Sea-faring Part of Mankind, and for the Fate of Sir Cloudeſly Shovel, who in the Year 1707, was loſt upon ſome of the neighbouring Rocks, (called Gilſton) with other Ships in Company, returning from Thoulon. But as theſe Iſlands are remarkable as well for their Situation, as for the Curioſities they contain both of Art and Nature, the Products of their Soil, and the Singularities of the Natives; I per-
a
ſuaded
