MEMOIR OF PENNANT. 



scenery, in many instances very correct. They are 

 drawn and engraved mostly by his draftsman Moses 

 Griffith, who accompanied him on the greater num- 

 ber of his excursions, and possessed considerable ta- 

 lents. It is curious now to compare these with the 

 same places, after the lapse of nearly a century. 

 Some of the seats at that time newly formed, with- 

 out shelter, surrounded with bare hills, or with plan- 

 tations yet in their infancy, are now embowered in a 

 gorgeous shade of venerable oak and chestnut, and 

 often adorned with the more tender shrubbery of the 

 modern times, which has usurped the place of the 

 birch and mountain ash. 



The antiquities the most valuable paintings in 

 the seats of- the chiefs or nobles the manners of 

 the people, and their superstitions, were all noted 

 down; and the commerce of the country, with 

 the possiblity of its improvement, seems to have 

 neen anxiously inquired into. 



The salmon and other fisheries are generally no- 

 ticed in passing ; and the rents, with the number 

 of fish caught yearly in some of the most important 

 of the former, are mentioned, which shew a depre- 

 ciation when compared with the results of the present 

 revenues. He mentions Char as abundant in most 

 of the Highland lochs, but only upon the authority 

 of the. inhabitants. This is a difficult fish to procure 

 in the summer without nets ; and I have been often 

 told of their abundance, without being able to see 

 specimens. It will be interesting hereafter to as- 



