A tour in Scotland; MDCCLXIX / [Thomas Pennant].

  • Thomas Pennant
Date:
1774
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A tour in Scotland; MDCCLXIX / [Thomas Pennant]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Sir ROGER MOSTYN, Bar1. O F MOSTYN, Flintshire, Dear Sir, A GENTLEMAN well known to the political world in the beginning of the prefent century made the tour of Europe, and before he reached Abbeville difcovered that in order to fee a country to belt advantage it was infinitely preferable to travel by day than by night. I cannot help making this applicable to my- felf, who, after publishing three volumes of the Zoology of Great Britain, found out that to be able to fpeak with more precifion of the fub- a jects