MEMOIR OF PENNANT. 
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ami the dislike of the bird to companions of difierent 
kinds at the season of incubation. It is Llandudno 
or St Orm's Head. “ The western extremity is a 
vast precipice, the haunt of various sea fowl in the 
time of breeding. The gulls possess the lower part, 
above them the razor-bills and guillemots have their 
quarters ; over them croak the cormorants ; and he- 
rons occupy the higher regions.” There are also many 
curious records of the Welsh, which will be read with 
much interest. Fifty-three plates illustrate both vo- 
lumes, and a supplement of ten tvas added to the last, 
etched by Moses Griffiths. 
It was about this time that the second edition of the 
history of Quadrupeds, alluded to at page 11, ap- 
peared in two volumes quarto. This had been pre- 
viously published as a Synopsis, with about thirty 
plates. These are now increased to fifty-two, and 
it received the additions which a better knowledge 
of the subject suggested. The work was originally 
intended as a reference to the Natural History and 
plates of Buffon, which are troublesome to consult, 
from their want of arrangement. In the same man- 
ner, he wrote out and published a systematic cata- 
logue of the birds, which we regret that he did not 
also extend. 
In the year following, the Journey from Chester 
to London appeared, written, he tells us, “ from 
journals made at different times in my way to town. 
I frequently made a considerable stay at several 
places, to give to this book all the fulness and accu- 
