OF MY LITERARY LIFE. 
account of the reptiles and fithes of North America, together 
with two very beautiful maps of the countries I had treated of 
in the introduction, (corrected fince the firft publication) en- 
graven by that excellent artift Mr. William Palmer. 
Ever fince the year 1777 I had quite loft my fpirit of ram- 
bling. Another happy nuptial connection fupprefled every 
defire to leave my fire-fide. But in the fpring of this year I 
was induced once more to renew my journies. My fon had 
returned from his firft tour to the continent, fo much to my 
fatisfaction, that I was determined to give him every advan- 
tage that might qualify him for a fecond, which he was on the 
point of taking over the kingdoms of France and Spain. I 
wifhed him to-make a comparifon of the naval ftrength and 
commercial advantages and difadvantages of our ifland, with 
thofe of her two powerful rivals; I attendéd him down the 
Thames; vifited all our docks; and by land (from Dartford) 
followed the whole coaft to the very Land’s End. On his re- 
turn from his fecond tour, I had great reafon to boaft that this 
excurfion was not thrown away; as to myfelf it was a painful 
one; lone abfence from my family was fo new to me, that I 
may fincerely fay it caft an anxiety over the whole journey. — 
Tuese were my greater labors. I, at feveral times, gave to 
the public fome trifles, which were not ill-received; but few 
knew the author. Thefe I collected fome years ago, and 
printed, for the amufement of a few friends, thirty copies, by 
the friendly prefs of George Allan, efq. at Darlington. 
Tue principal was my hiftory of the Patagonians, collected 
from the account given by father Faulkner, in 1771, and from 
the feveral hiftories of thofe people by various writers, I believe 
5 that 
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TourR TO THE 
Lanpv’s Enp. 
MiscELLanieEs. 
History oF THE 
PATAGONIANS. 
