A View of the Present State of the Scilly Islands

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Excerpt from A View of the Present State of the Scilly Islands: Exhibiting Their Vast Importance to the British Empire, the Improvements of Which They Are Susceptible, and a Particular Account of the Means Lately Adopted for the Amelioration of the Condition of the InhabitantsThe draught here alluded to is a chart of the Scilly Islands, which is certainly plan ned and executed in a judicious manner, the extracts of various grants and charters, which the author has made from the Tower Records, are valuable to the antiquarian and historian, but of the work at large it must be observed (how interesting soever it might once have been) that it has no claims what soever to scientific research, just proportion, or regular arrangement. The style is gar rulous and common-place, - abounding with frequent abortive attempts at wit, and ridi culous conceits. The writer dwells with tedious minuteness on many tri¿es, - swells into bombast in describing real curiosities.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.