You know I am not a friend to puffing. but I wish you would get inserted in the magazine (with a proper introduction on my attention to the distresses of the poor of Scotland) that part of my voyage beginning p.362( [sic]I retired &c, to the end of 369.

I trust you will not say it is done at my request but let it be between the Printer & you.¹

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Editorial notes

1. The passage Pennant refers to is the conclusion of the Tour in Scotland and Hebrides 1772, where he describes a dream in which the ghost of an Ossianic warrior appears before him to criticise the practices of modern Highland landlords. Pennant's request seems to have been fulfilled in the issue of Ruddiman's Weekly magazine for 2 June 1774, where the excerpt is printed as an unsigned review with the following introduction:

'The Review' in The Weekly Magazine, Or, Edinburgh Amusement, 24, (Jun 02, 1774), pp.307-309 (p.307).