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GENERA OF 
BirpDs tN 1773: 
NorTHeERN 
Tour OF THIS 
YEAR. 
OF UM Y “ELE RAR Yo si EE: 
greatly gratified by the compliments paid to me in every cor- 
porated town; Edinburgh itfelf prefented me with its freedom, 
and I returned rich in civic honors. 
I puBiisHEep the o€tavo edition of Genera of Birds in 1773, 
and gave with it an explanatory plate. 
Tuis likewife was a year of great activity. I rode (for almoft 
all my tours were on horfeback) to Mr. Grabam’s of Netherby, 
beyond Carlifle, through thofe parts of Lancafbire, We/tmoreland, 
and Cumberland, which I had not before feen. I vifited Sefton, 
Orm/fkirk, Blackburne, and Clithero, in Lancafbire; Malham Coves, 
Settle, and Ingleborough, in Yorkfhire; Kirkby Lonfdale, Kirkby 
Stephen, and Orton, in Weftmoreland; and all the countefs of 
Cumberland’s caftles in that county; Naworth, Corbie, and Beu- 
caftle, in Cumberland. In my way I {fkirted the weftern fide of 
Yorkfbire; 1 paffed fome hours with the reverend do&tor Bura 
at Orton, in Weftmoreland, a moft ufeful and- worthy cha- 
racter. > 
From Wetherby 1 crofied Alton Moor into the bifhoprick of 
Durham, made {ome ftay with its prelate, dogtor ohn Egerton, 
and-entered York/bire atter crofing the Zees at Barnard Ca/ile. 
-From. thence I vifited Roke/by houfe ; Catterick bridge; the fin- 
‘gular circular entrenchments attributed to the Danes: the pic- 
turefque Hackfall, and the venerable remains of Fountaine’s abby. 
The laft attracted my -attention fo much that I revifited them 
in May 1777, and each time they gave full employ to the pen- 
cil of Mos Griffith. He etched two of his drawings: J <here 
give one of the plates, as a fpecimen of his” extenfive 
-senius. 
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From thence I croffed to Boroughbridge and Kuarefborough. 
From 
