Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A memoir of the late Philip Meadows Martineau, surgeon. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.
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![the Highlands, accompanied by two fellow students, named Jacobson and Baker. He left Edinburgh on the second of August, proceeded through Queensferry to Falkirk, passed the canal then in the ])iogress of construction, which unites the Forth and the Clyde; visited the iron-w orks at Canon, which even at that time emj)loyed twelve hundred men, and proceeded to Stirling. Through Dumblain the fellow travellers proceeded to Crief, which is tlie proper commencement of the Highlands, and thence to Taybridge,Taymouth, and LochTay, whence they rode northw ards to Blair, saw the York cascade, visited Dunkeld and Perth, and taking an easterly direction, stopped at Brechin in Angus-shire. In the autumn of 1775, after visiting his relations in Norwich, Mr. Martineau went to London to attend the lectures and hospitals there, and remained in London until late in the spring of 1776. At the close of the lectures Mr. Martineau determined on a tour to Paris and Geneva, and left England for that purpose in July, 1766. A memorandum book exists, in which a journal of this j)eregrination was commenced. But the avocations inseparable from travelling caused it to be discontinued at Geneva, Soon after Mr. MartineaiFs return to Norwich, the j>artnership proposed by Mr. Donne during the [)receding spring was realized; it continued for ten years, after which Mr. M, practised on his own separate account.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22392907_0011.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
