OF i MY? al TE RAM Ee. 
I flatter myfelf that they would not have come out of my hands 
unimproved. To him I alfo communicated feveral of my 
manufcript journals, which I flatter myfelf might in fome 
fmall decree contribute to the improvement of our venerable 
topographer. 
As it was my wifh that no part of North Britain, or its 
iflands, fhould be left unexplored, or any of their advantage loft 
for want of notice, I fupported the reverend Charles Cordiner, 
epifcopal minilter at Banff, in a journey over the countries 
nerth of Loch Broom, which I was obliged to defift from at- 
tempting; this he performed, much to my fatisfaction, in 1776. 
I publifhed his journal, enticed, Antiquities and Scenery of the 
North of Scotland, at my own hazard. It 1s iluftrated with 
xxii plates, taken from drawings by the fkilful pencil of that 
ingenious traveller. The work fucceeded. I made him a 
prefent of the expences which attended his journey. 
Numsers of other fubjects of antiquities, views, and natural 
hiftory, are now in publication by the fame gentleman. _ 
I was actuated by the fame zeal in refpect to the extreme 
iflands of the fame parts of our kingdom. In the reverend 
Mr. George Low, minifter of Birfa in the Orknies, I met with a 
gentleman willing to undertake the vifitation of thofe iflands, 
and of the Scherlands, and to communicate to me his obferva-~ 
tions of every thing he imagined would be of ufe to the king- 
dom, or afford me pleafure. His furveys were made in the 
years 1774 and 1778, and he favored me with a moft inftruc- 
tive journal, and feveral drawings. It was my with to publifh 
his voyages, as I had the travels of Mr. Cordizer; but certain 
reafons difcouraged me. ‘This ought not to be confidered as - 
any 
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Rev. CHarLes 
Cor DINER. 
Rev. Gseorcr 
Low. 
