Dear Sir

In return for all your frequent civilities please to accept this trifling acknowledgemt [acknowledgement] a copy of my Tour in Scotland which you will receive from Doctor Ramsay when it reaches him.

I have a strong inclination to make a second excursion into y^r country; but in particular the western parts & some of the islands. you best can inform me whether there are not cruisers belonging to the customs that lie in some of the harbors on that coast: let me beg the favor of you to inform me of their usual stations, whether leave might not be obtained for me to have the use of one for a few days provided I do not go beyond their limits: & I must also beg to be informed who are the proper persons to make Interest with.

I hope you have of late been lucky in y^r acquisitions & shall be very glad to hear what they are.

I am Dear Sir
your obliged &
most obed^t Serv^t

Thomas Pennant

Downing Dec^r 3^d 1771.

more Errata in the Tour in Scotland

• Dedic. V. irresistable..... irresistible.
• 52. James II .... James VI.
• 132. barren for ..... burnt for.

M — 6

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