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on the general subject of Natural History. I have just 

 read his 'Tours';* they gave me pleasure and informa- 

 tion. He is composing a map of Scotland suited to the 

 occasion, which was much wanting. Mr. P. did not go to 

 the Orcades himself, nor Shetland; but sent a Scotch clergy- 

 man,! a missionary, he calls him, to both those places ; and 

 intends to avail himself of his journals. Mr. P. was last 

 summer at the Isle of Man, and intends to give an account 

 of that place also. He has now taken great pains to 

 investigate Great Britain and its Islands, and will be well 

 qualifyed to put the last hand to the 'British Zoology' 

 in a quarto edition.}; 



You are by this time, I presume, settled quietly down 

 to your Fauna; and will be able to make dispatch in your 

 larger articles, now you have finished the small ware of your 

 insects. Frequent inquiries are made about your work; 

 and the Nat[uralist] world expects good things at your 

 hands. N. White is still at Newton, and recovers mar- 

 vellously. J. Neal is in a most dangerous way; and Berriman 

 lies still in a lamentable state. The day after you got 

 home I had a cold but most pleasant drive into Hants; 

 there was just snow enough on the ground to make the 

 carriage wheels run easy. We have now summer-like 

 weather, and this day the insects swarmed under sunny 

 hedges; the business of generation seems, even now, to go 

 on among them. Pray provide a good many cuts for your 

 work ; plates at present recommend a work. Mr. and Mrs. 

 Bassat, who are here, join in respects. Pray write soon. 

 My respects to my sister, who must be happy to see her son 

 so tall and healthy. Y'"" &c. ^jl, ^hite. 



• The third and last volume of Pennant's ' Tour in Scotland ' was published 

 in 1775. 



t The Rev. George Low. 



+ Such an edition was, in fact, published by Benjamin White in the 

 following year (1776), as well as one in octavo, and it was of this that 

 Gilbert White corrected the proof-sheets. — A. N. 



