34 MEMOIR OF PENNANT. 



whence he travels as it were opposite his former 

 course, entering the Baltic, exploring the shores of 

 Lapland, Sweden, and Spitzbergen ; from hence all 

 the northern coasts and islands of Asia are traced, 

 and the arctic latitudes of North America, as far as 

 discovery had extended. The different tribes, the 

 animals and productions, of each country are sum- 

 marily mentioned, and the account is interspersed 

 with remarks on their geographical distribution, com- 

 paring the zoology and vegetation with that of Bri- 

 tain. The second volume commences the detailed 

 description of the animals and birds which are found 

 in the countries he has reviewed in the 6rst; and 

 the third contains the remaining part of the birds, the 

 reptiles, and fishes, and concludes with an enumera- 

 tion of a few insects. The volumes are illustrated by 

 twenty-six plates, with two maps designed to shew 

 the countries described. 



The only remaining work of any consequence 

 which this assiduous writer published during what 

 may be termed the active part of his life, was the 

 History of London, in one quarto volume. It is 

 written and illustrated in the style of his other works, 

 and possesses much local interest. Pennant had 

 now reached his sixty-seventh year, in the enjoy- 

 ment of nearly uninterrupted good health. The in- 

 firmity of years had almost imperceptibly stolen up- 

 on him, and he acknowledged that " his body may 

 have abated of its wonted vigour." In his Lite- 

 rary Biography, when speaking of this part of his Hie, 



