Downing Dec^r. 3^d. 1775.

Dear Sir

many thanks for y^r favors of the 3^d past &c & for the excellent specimen of the road book. Which will be of great utility. I trust that the writer has actually visited all the parts even the extreme. I beg a thousand pardons about saying that I had not Moyses for I just find you had presented it to me before. but I will find means of returning one copy. I have now with me Doctor Forster & his son who make some stay here. I am vastly happy with their remarks on their circumnavigation, which are most curious & instructive. They will soon have their voyage ready for the press: It will appear in a year. it will be in folio in two volumes. One by Captⁿ Cook. The last will be chiefly nautical. Theirs on natural Philosophy, manners, oeconomy &c of the people they have seen.¹ Pray excuse the inclosed.

I am Dear Sir
y^rs most affectly

Tho. Pennant

I hope M^r Low is not ill. if his silence results from nuptial engagements, It is venial.

The Zoology is in q^to & oct^vo.

The acc^t of Dornadilla’s tower is reprinted in my voyage.²

y^r debt is so small that I shall not send you a draft till it is larger.

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Editorial notes

1. The Forsters produced two published works based on their voyages with Cook: their botanical , Characteres generum plantarum, quas in itinere ad insulas Maris Australis and unauthorised account of A voyage round the world, in His Britannic Majesty's Sloop, Resolution were both published in 1777. Cook's own A voyage towards the South Pole, and round the world also appeared in 1777.
2. See Pennant, A tour in Scotland, and voyage to the Hebrides (Chester: 1774), pp.393-394n. The original account was printed anonymously as 'Remains of a Druidic Work in the North of Scotland', in The weekly magazine, or, Edinburgh amusement, vol. 20, June 17, 1773, pp.365-366. The author was Pennant's correspondent Alexander Pope, minister of Reay.