D^r Sir

Many thanks for y^r kind favor. Please still to direct as usual. The illness of a very antient aunt to whom I am much bound by gratitude will I fear stop my journey. I believe D^r Saunders is right; but the prints were inscrib’d as I said, so I presume it was a mistake of the engraver whoever he was, not mine I assure you. Who prints M^r Shaws history for I w^d like to send a short Letter to the Editor to be printed; to set the matter right. I hope you looked to the affair of the other mistake.

Thanks for the inclosed Letters. I am amply provided about Montrose. I have found out Battledikes. Struts book is good.

You hear nothing of M^r Macgovan. I wish to y^r Country all the honor I can, so expect those small supports of drawings.

I am Dear Sir
very sincerely y^rs

Tho. Pennant

Downing.

Nov^r 29^th 1774.

The pride of y^r country suffocates truth. Bog in Geiht was the original name of Gordon Castle .¹ vidè Hist. of the Gordonsvol.1.p. 98.

There were two battles at Inverlochy. one with Montrose. another 2 or 3 centuries before. can you point out the last. & who speaks of it.

FreePH:Yorke

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Editorial notes

1. Pennant writes that the castle 'was originally called the castle of the bog of Gight' in his Tour in Scotland 1769, 3rd edn. (Warrington: 1774), p.157.