VoYAGE TO THE 
IsLe OF MAN. 
A Tour, 1774s 
inTO Nor- 
THAMPTON- 
SHIRE. 
OF MY (lst ERA. EEE Ee: 
Fofeph Banks, who touched there the fame year, in his way to 
Iceland, the lofs to the public was happily fupplied. 
In this year I vifited the Je of Man, in company with the 
reverend doctor Lort, captain Grofe, Paul Panton, efq. junior, of 
Plas Gwyn, in the ifland of Anglefey, and the reverend Hugh Da- 
vies, at this time rector of Aber in Caernarvonfhire, whofe com= 
pany gave additional pleafure to the tour. I kept a journal, 
and was favored with ample materials from the gentlemen 
oi the ifland, moft of which were unaccountably loft about a 
year after, and my defign of giving an account of that ifland to 
the public was fruftrated. 
‘I soup accufe myfelf of a very undue neglect, if I did not 
acknowlege the various fervices I received from the friendfhip 
of Mr. Davies, at different times, fince the beginning of our 
acquaintance. I will in particular mention thofe which refulted 
from his great knowledge in botany. To him I owe the account 
of our Sxowdonian plants; to him I lie under the obligation for 
undertaking, in fune 1775, at my requeft, another voyage to the. 
Ile of Man, to take a fecond review of its vegetable produc- 
tions. By his labors a Flora of the ifland is rendered as com- 
plete as poffible to be effected by a fingle perfon, at one feafon 
of the year. The number of plants he obferved amounted to 
about five hundred and fifty. 
In the {pring of 1774, on my return from my annual vifit to 
London, 1 took the Northamptonfhire road, paffed by Baldock, 
Eaton, St. Neots, Kimbolton, Ibraipfion, Draiton-houfe, Luffwick 
and its fine tombs, Broughton-houfe, and the monuments at 
Warkton, Leicefter, Afoby de la Zouch, Bradford-hall, celebrated in 
Grammont’s 
