OF MY LITERARY LIFE, 33 
In September, of the fame year, I took a journey to London, to 
fee fir Fofeph Banks and doctor Solandcr, on their arrival from 
their circumnavigation. In my return I vifited Robert Berkeley, 
efq. of Spetchly, near Worcefter, to indulge my curiofity with fee- 
ing and examining Mr. Faulkner, an aged jcfuit, who had pafled Fararr Fauir- 
thirty-eight years in Patagonia; his account fatisfied me of the “**? * Juswnre 
exiftence of the tall race of mankind. In the appendix to this 
work, I have given all I could collect refpeéting that much- 
doubted people. 
Axout this time I gave to the public my Zour iz Scotland, in Tour tn Scor- 
one volume oétavo, containing xviii .plates. A candid account Wen eS 
of that country was fuch a novelty, that the impreffion was in- 
ftantly bought up; and in the-next year another was printed, 
and as foon fold. 
In this tour, as in all the fucceeding, I labored earneftly to 
conciliate the affections of the two nations, fo wickedly and ftu- 
dioufly fet at variance by evil-defigning people. I received feve- 
ral very flattering letters on the occafion. An extract of one, 
from that refpectable nobleman, the late earl of Kinnoull, dated 
February the 27th, 1772, may. ferve imftar omnium. 
« T prrusep your book, for which I return my hearty thanks,. 
“ with the greateft pleafure; every reader muft admire the 
“ ooodnefs of the author’s heart; the inhabitants of this part of 
“the united kingdoms fhould exprefs the warmeft gratitude 
‘for your candid reprefentation of them and their country. 
“ This, unlefs my countrymen wifh to forfeit the favorable opi- 
*‘nion you entertain and endeavor to imprefs upon the minds 
* of their fellow fubje¢ts, muft procure you their beft thanks.. 
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