Downing Oct^r 9^th. 1774.

Dear Sir

your good news was sent after me here for I left London before its arrival. Pray when you write to M^r Low, express to him my sincere joy; for nothing can equal the happiness I have in hearing of the good fortune of my friends. He will now be settled so as to pursue his plan with ease. I long to hear from him & beg neither you nor he would mind the cessation of franks.

I beg you to suspend the arrangement of the Br. Zool. plates till my new edition is come out which will not be this twelvemonth.¹ I am now busy about my 2^d volume of my Tour, & beg you to tell me immediately the exact situation of these places all in the lower parts of Perthshire, Angus or Perhaps the Merns

Lintrose

Battledikes

Kiethic[...]

Kirk of Monboddo

Water of Errie

Point out these, to other places in Dorrets great map as near as possible.

Can you also inform me of his authority for saying Inch Stuthil between Dunkeld & Perth was called the antient seat of the Picts. See the map.²

I am Dear Sir
y^r faithfull friend

Tho. Pennant

By way of fore warning, shall be in London from the 20 of Dec^r to the 20^th of January.

Y^r 4 Packets just came but I have not time to inspect them. you must inclose no more till I bid you. you must now direct to me & send only single Letters. but if you have much to say use large paper. T.P.

T.P.

M

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Editorial notes

1. The publication of the fourth edition of British Zoology would be delayed until 1776-77.
2. Pennant is referring to the following annotation on James Dorret's 1750 A general map of Scotland and islands thereto belonging: 'Inchstruthill Antiently the City of Cullen built with many Strong Castles. Burnt by the Picts to hinder the Romans from getting In & Fortifying it.' Dorret's likely source was John Bellenden’s 1536 translation from Latin into Scots, of Hector Boece’s The History and Croniklis of Scotland.