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1782. 
JOURNEY TO 
Lon pon, 
1783. 
OF: MY (LITERARY ML Mee. 
Ar the requeft of Sir Yofeph Banks 1 drew up an account of 
the feveral earthquakes I had felt in Flmt/bire; and remarked 
they were aever felt at the bottom of lead mines, or coal pits, 
in our country. ‘This paper was publifhed, in the year. 1781, in © 
volume xxi of the Philofophical Tran/aéfions. 
In 1782 I publifhed my journey from Chefter to London; 
this was formed from journals made at different times in my 
way to town. I frequently made a confiderable ftay at feveral 
places, to give this book all the fulnefs and accuracy in my- 
power. ‘This was republifhed in Dublin, in 1783, in an octavo 
form. 
On ‘une the 5th, 1783, I was honored by my election into 
the Societas Phyfiographica at Lund, in Sweden; a favor I proba- 
bly owed to my learned friend, profeffor Retzius. 
In the fame month and year I made a fhort elopement to 
> meet the reverend doétor Na/b, Mrs. and Mifs Naf, at Shrew/- 
bury, in order to make a partial voyage down the Severn. My 
fon met us from Oxford, and we took boat at Atcham-bridge. 
About four miles diftant from Salop, we were highly amufed 
with the picturefque fcenes, efpecially thofe from Buildas to 
Ombrefley. We landed oppofite to Holmsfiat, a little below that 
village, and concluded our tour at Beverey, the hofpitable feat of 
doétor Na/h, about three miles diftant. 
In 1784 appeared my letter from a Welfh aecnelees to his 
reprefentative, to convert him from his political tenets. My 
then opinion of the minifter is daily vindicated. 
A work defigned to comprehend the zootocy of North Ame- 
rica had long employed my mind and my pen, on which I in- 
tended to have beftowed that name; but, for the affecting rea- 
8 fon 
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