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In 1769, he published a volume on British fishes; and in the 
same year he began a work on Indian Zoology, which however, 
proceeded only to twelve plates, and was afterwards republished 
in Saxony. Of this he observes:—“my mind was always in a 
progressive state; it could never stagnate ; this carried me fur- 
ther than the limits of my own Islands; and made me desirous 
of forming a zoology of some distant country, with which I might 
relieve my pen by the pleasure and variety of the subjects.” In 
1770, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Dron- 
theim. In 1771, the honorary degree of doctor of law, was con- 
ferred upon him by the University of Oxford. About this period, 
he married a second wife ; the fortune he now possessed, allowed 
him to indulge his natural taste for hospitality; and being thus 
comfortably settled, he entirely lost, as he informs us, his desire 
of rambling. In 1785, appeared his great work on the “ Arelie 
Zoology ; which was shortly after translated both into German 
and French. He was now elected a member of the American 
Philosophical Society of Philadelphia, an attention which was 
peculiarly gratifying to him; and he observes on the occasion, 
at “there science of every kind began to flourish, and among 
others of natural history.” 
From this time he continued to print other occasional works ; 
among them a pamphlet entitled, ‘ American Annals ; an incite- 
ment to Parliament men to inquire into the conduct of the com- 
manders in the American war ;' and he was now much engaged 
In his duties as a magistrate and a landlord. His health continu- 
ed good till within two years of his death, when, in 1798, he 
quietly sank into the grave at the age of seventy-two. In person ~ 
Was rather above the middle height, well proportioned, and 
Somewhat inclined, in the latter part of his life, to corpulency. 
His complexion was fair; and his countenance peculiarly open 
and benignant, 
hile many may stand higher in general estimation for their 
genius and abilities, few surpass Pennant in his unceasing indus- 
ty and his continual endeavors to be useful to his fellow men. 
Mild and amiable in temper he avoided politics as far as he could, 
an age peculiarly subject to political excitement ; and this, re- 
fined a disposition originally tender and gracious. He fulfilled 
his domestic duties in a manner truly exemplary ; and his writings 
Und in passages which prove that he never forgot his con- 
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