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ANNUAL REGISTER. 



History of Whitford and Holywell, 



4to 1796 



Outlines of the Globe, vols. i. and 



ii. 4to 1798 



Miscellanies, only 30 copies, frona a 



private jiress. 

 History of the Patagonians, from 



the same press. 



Posthumous Publications. 

 Outlines of the Globe, vol, iii. and 



iv. 4to 1781 



Jouruey from London to Dover, 4to. 



1801 

 Journey from Dover to the Isle of 



"Wight. 4to 1801 



The two last of these form also 

 two of the vol-imes of the work de- 

 nominated by Mr. Pennant, " Out- 

 lines of the Globe." This, in ma- 

 nuscript, occupies two and twenty 

 folio volumes, and uncommon ex- 

 pence was bestowed on them, in 

 ornaments and illuminations. No 

 more than six have been yet pub- 

 lished. 



The writing of his numerous 

 works, their correction, and the 

 additions to the subsequent editions, 

 with his various other duties, kept 

 both his mind and body in active and 

 continual employment. 



To his regular and temperate 

 mode of life, and his riding exer- 

 cise, for he performed all his differ- 

 ent tours on horseback, with the 

 perfect case that he enjoyed on 

 these pleasing excuiSions, he attri- 

 butes the almost uninterrupted 

 good health he enjoyed for nearly 

 seventy years. His general time of 

 retiring to rest was ten o'clock ; 

 and he rose, both in summer and 

 winter, at seven. He carefully 

 avoided that meal of excess, a sup- 

 per; " and my soul," says he, 

 *' rises with vigor to its employs, 

 and does not, J trust, disappoint 

 the end of its Creator : 



Behold how pale the seated guests arise. 

 From suppers, puzzled with varieties ! 

 The body too with yesterday's excess, 

 Burthen'd and tir'd shall the poor sotil 



depress; 

 Weigli down this portion of celestiaF 



birth, 

 This breath of God, and fix it on the 



eartii." 



His favourite exercise seems to 

 have been on horseback, and this he 

 continued, as far as he was able, to 

 the latest part of his life, " con- 

 sidering the absolute resignation of 

 the person to the luxury of a carri. 

 age, to forbode a very short interval 

 betwixt that and the vehicle which 

 is to carry us to our last stage." 



In the year 1792, the sixty-se- 

 venth of his age, he says of himself, 

 " though my body may have some- 

 what abated its wonted vigor, yet 

 my mind still retains its powers, its 

 longing after improvement, its wish 

 to see new lights through the 

 chinks which time has made." And, 

 speaking of his great attempt, the 

 Outlines of the Globe: " Happy is 

 the life that could beguile its fleeting 

 hours without injury to any one, 

 and, with addition of years, conti- 

 nue to rise in its pursuits. But 

 more interesting, and still more ex- 

 alted subjects, must employ my fu- 

 ture span." 



Some of these latter observations 

 appear in his " Literary Life," 

 which contaihs his biography so far 

 as relates, principally, to his lite- 

 rary concerns, to the commence- 

 ment of the year 1793. This, al- 

 though published by himself, he , 

 whimsically denominated a posthu- 

 mous work, the name in dotted 

 characters, 



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