GR TM Y) Lite RAR Yel E; 
Tus year was a very active one with me; I had the hardi- 
nefs to venture on a journey to the remoteft part of North Bri- 
tain, a country almoft as little known to its fouthern brethren as 
Kamtfchatka. brought home a favorable account of the land. 
Whether it will thank me or not I cannot fay, but from the re- 
port I made, and fhewing that it might be vifited with fafety, 
it has ever fince been iwondée with fouthern vifitants. 
In the fame year I received a very polite letter from the 
reverend Yo. Erneft Gunner, bifhop of Drontheim, in Norway, 
informing me that I had been elected member of the Royal Aca- 
demy of Sciences on March the gth paft; of which fociety that 
prelate was prefident. 
In the midft of my reigning purfuits, I never negleéted the 
company of my convivial friends, or fhunned the fociety of the 
gay world. At an affembly in the fpring, the lively converfa- 
tion of an agreeable Fair gave birth to the 
ODE, occcafioned by a Lady profeffing an attachment toINDIFFERENC3s 
LY, InpirFerenceE, hated maid! 
Seek Spitzbergen’s barren fhade: 
Where old Winter keeps his court, 
There, fit Gueft, do thou refort ; 
And thy frofty breaft repofe 
*Midft congenial ice and {fnows. 
There refide, infipid maid, 
But ne’er infeft my Emma’s head. 
Or elfe feek the Cloifter’s pale, 
Where reluctant Virgins veil : 
In the corner of whofe heart 
Earth with Heaven ftill keeps a part: 
There thy fullef& influence fhower, 
Free poor Grace from Paffion’s power. 
Che Give! 
iz 
First Tour in- 
TO SCOTLAND. 
EvecrepD Fet- 
LOW OF THE R. 
Acap. aT Drone 
THEIM. 
