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MEMOIR OF PENNAXT. 
scenery, in many instances very correct. They are 
drawn and engraved mostly by his draftsman Moses 
Griffith, who accompanied him on the greater num- 
ber of his excursions, and possessed considerable ta- 
lents. It is curious now to compare these with the 
same places, after the lapse of nearly a century. 
Some of the seats at that time newly formed, with- 
out shelter, surrounded with hare hills, or with plan- 
tations yet in their infancy, are now embowered in a 
gorgeous shade of venerable oak and chestnut, and 
often adorned with the more tender shrubbery of the 
modern times, which has usurped the place of the 
birch and mountain ash. 
The antiquities — the most valuable paintings in 
the seats of the chiefs or nobles — the manners ol 
the people, and their superstitions, were all noted 
down; — and the commerce of the country, with 
the possiblity of its improvement, seems to have 
oeen anxiously inquired into. 
The salmon and other fisheries are generally no- 
ticed in passing ; and the rents, with the number 
of fish caught yearly in some of the most impoitant 
of the former, are mentioned, which shew a depre- 
ciation when compared with the results of the present 
revenues. He mentions Char as abundant in most 
of the Highland lochs, but only upon the authority 
of the inhabitants. This is a difficult fish to procure 
in the summer without nets ; and I have been often 
told of their abundance, without being able to see 
specimens. It will be interesting heieafter to as- 
