Dear Sir

Many thanks for y^r kind Letter & correction of the plan. M^rBisset Minister of Caputh hath lately obliged me with many proofs of Delvin having been a roman station,¹ so malgré vous, you shall be successor to the conquerors of Caledonia.

As you live not remote from Faskally, Pray let me ask, if salmon ever get up the fall of the Tumel within sight of that delicious place. if so, I shall be very glad if you would procure the exact height of the said fall.

M^r G. Paton speaks something of y^r expecting my appendix to my oct^vo edition. I do not mean you such a fragment: but a quarto volume now printing more worth y^r acceptance.² I am now in full employ on that subject. & shall be pretty prolix on y^r neigborhood, thanks to the communicative disposition of y^r countrymen.

If you know of any singular tenures of manours: I should be happy in having an abstract. I wish much for a copy of a writ of fire & sword.³ excuse all this trouble. & think me

with true regard,
Dear Sir
y^r obliged & obed^t Serv^t

Tho. Pennant

Downing Jan. 27^th 1775.

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Editorial notes

1. See Pennant, See A tour in Scotland 1772, part II (1776), p.70.
2. Pennant is likely alluding to his intention to present Mackenzie with a copy of the forthcoming A tour in Scotland 1772, part II (1776).
3. A form of royal warrant issued in the absence of government's capacity to act in a particular place or time, and violently enforced by one subject against another; an example of such a decree against two members of the Maclean family in 1675 is given as an appendix to Pennant, A tour in Scotland 1772, part II (1776), pp.443-46.