104 NATURAL HISTORY. 



Pennant seldom allowed a year to pass without making 

 a ' tour ' of some kind ; and in this way he accomplished 

 very extensive peregrinations through all the principal 

 districts of England, in the Isle of Man, and in parts 

 of Wales. He always kept journals of his travels, which 

 were published, and enjoyed an extensive circulation a 

 circulation which they well deserved on account of the 

 many observations which they contained as to the 

 antiquities, historical buildings, and natural features of 

 the regions traversed. 



The most considerable zoological work which Pennant 

 published, after his ' British Zoology,' is his ' Arctic 

 Zoology.' This well-known work was originally intended 

 to comprehend an account of the natural history of 

 North America; but the author subsequently extended 

 it to include the animals of Northern Europe and 

 Asia. The ' Arctic Zoology' consisted of two quarto 

 volumes, with plates, and was published in 1785. It 

 was translated into German and French; and a second 

 English edition, in three quarto volumes, appeared in 

 1792. 



Only Pennant's principal works have been here alluded 

 to, but his literary activity was incessant, and as varied as 

 it was perennial. No theme was too vast for him, and in 

 his sixty-seventh year he could not only plan an ' Outlines 

 of the Globe' which should extend to fourteen quarto 

 volumes, but he actually possessed energy sufficient to 

 write four of these. The same pen, however, which could 

 write a learned memoir for the ' Philosophical Trans- 

 actions,' found apparently equally congenial employment 

 in epistles on 'Mail Coaches,' 'Free Thoughts' on the 



