Downing Oct^r 18^th 1778

Dear Sir

I now thank you for Ainsly’s map which I received last ^week only.¹ I have requested M^r Cordiner of Banff to send you a book to be forwarded to M^r Low: It is a useful translation of whatsoever relates to Cathness & the orknies in Torfæus.² He may make use of the latter part for his history. Please also to transmit my Letter to him.

I am
Dear Sir
y^r most obed^t Serv^t

Tho. Pennant

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Editorial notes

1. Pennant may be referring to a draft version of John Ainslie's Travelling map of Scotland shewing the distances from one stage to another, which was not published until 1783.
2. Probably a version of the 'Extracts from Torfæus' which appeared as an appendix to Cordiner's Antiquities and Scenery of the North of Scotland, in a Series of Letters to Thomas Pennant (London: 1780), pp.121-170, which had been translated by Pennant's correspondent Alexander Pope of Reay.