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MEMOIR or PENNANT. 
absence, lie speedily accomplishes the remainder of 
his journey *. 
Thus was concluded Pennant’s second journey to 
Scotland ; and we may perhaps be accused of hav- 
ing devoted more space to the examination of these 
Tours than the limits of this Memoir could allow ; 
but, after the British Zoology, we consider them the 
most important of his works, and of great interest to 
a modern tourist who will travel the same route, and 
compare the remarks relating to almost every part of 
the economy and natural history of the various dis- 
tricts, with the state of the country at the present- 
time ; while their reputation abroad is sufficiently 
attested by German and French translations appear- 
ing in these respective countries. 
The best editions of this work are those in 4to, 
published by Benjamin White in 1790, in three vo- 
lumes, of which two are devoted to the second Tour. 
They are illustrated by 134 plates, in general well 
and boldly executed. 
The last volume of his second Tour did not appear 
till nearly three years after his return, and, during 
that period, though much of his leisure was occupied 
in preparing for publication the various memoranda 
which he had so assiduously collected, and in su- 
perintending the new editions of his former journey, 
he found time to make several excursions of less ex- 
* During this tour, a great part of the materials for Dr 
Lightfoot’s Flora Scotica were collected, in the publication 
of which Mr Pennant was of much service. 
