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PREFACE. 



THE following Work, fuch as it is, 

 owes its appearance to Thomas Pen-^ 

 nant) Efquire. 

 This gentleman, in his fecond tour and 

 voyage to the Hebridesy in the fummer of 

 the year 1772, kindly invited me to par- 

 take of his company, and did every thing 

 in his power to promote and facilitate my 

 journey : a journey I was defirous to un- 

 dertake, not only as it promifed much va- 

 riety of amufement and inftrudion, but 

 as it flattered me in a particular manner 

 with a fair opportunity of gratifying a fa- 

 vorite affeftion I had long conceived for the 

 a 3 fcience 



