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MEMOIR OF PENNANT. 
whence he travels as it were opposite his former 
course, entering the Baltic, exploring the shores of 
Lapland, Sweden, and Spitzbergen ; from hence all 
the northern coasts and islands of Asia are traced, 
and the arctic latitudes of North America, as far as 
discovery had extended. The dilferent tribes, the 
animals and productions, of each country are sum- 
marily mentioned, and the account is interspersed 
with remarks on their geographical distribution, com- 
paring the zoology and vegetation with that of Bri- 
tain. The second volume commences the detailed 
description of the animals and birds which are found 
in the countries he has reviewed in the first; and 
the third contains the remaining part of the birds, the 
reptiles, and fishes, and concludes with an enumera- 
tion of a few insects. The volumes are illustrated by 
twenty-six plates, with two maps designed to shew 
the countries described. 
The only remaining woi'k of any consequence 
which this assiduous writer published during what 
may be termed the active part of his life, was the 
History of London, in one quarto volume. It is 
written and illustrated in the style of his other works, 
and possesses much local interest. Pennant had 
now reached his sixty-seventh year, in the enjoy- 
ment of nearly uninterrupted good health. The in- 
firmity of years had almost imperceptibly stolen up- 
on him, and he acknowledged that “ his body may 
have abated of its wonted vigour.” In his Lite- 
rary Biography, when speaking of this part of his life. 
