Dear Sir,

your agreable favor reached me yesterday: The Lyre at last proves my shearwater Br. Zool. II. vide the great edition & you will see its figure taken from a stuft skin sent from the isle of man. by the dimensions yours must be a young bird; but I did not measure mine as I seldom care to trust to meer [sic] skins.

The overgrown mackerel is my Tunny Br. Zool. IV. which I examined just caught at Inveraray.

I hope you had my Letter in which I made some queries about the possibility of getting a comfortable vessel for a little voyage among the western isles, a ship that one might lie aboard in case of necessity. I wrote to Dr Ramsay on the same subject & hope to be favored with y^r answer as soon as convenient.

I am Dear Sir
your obliged humble
Serv^t

Tho. Pennant

Downing Dec^r 13^th 1771.

I believe you may get Willoughby for 2 guineas. It is a most excellent book.

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