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I read a very interesting account of their progress southwards somewhere lately." "I can tell you where, Frank; I will show it you, and when you have read it aloud, I will point out one or two mistakes, which it is as well to clear your mind of. It is in old Pennant's work; here it is; will you read it to us, John?" "With pleasure, Uncle Thomas.
Since that they have been twice republished; once with dissertations and notes. Pennant's Tour to Scotland and Voyage to the Hebrides. 3 vols. 4to. 1774. Dr. Johnson's Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland. 1775. 8vo. Account of the present State of the Hebrides and Western Coast of Scotland. By John Anderson. Edin. 1785. Written expressly to point out means of improvement.
These travels, generally performed on foot, contain good accounts of the antiquities, and some notices of the natural history, manners, &c. of those parts of England and Wales to which they respectively relate. Pennant's Tours from Downing to Alston Moor from Alston Moor to Harrowgate and Brimham Cross Journey from London to the Isle of Wight. 2 vols.
Records not consulted by old English historians. Mr. Pennant's Tours criticised. September 18. Ancient residence of a Highland Chief. Languages the pedigree of nations. Laird of the Isle of Muck. September 19. Choice of a wife. Women an over-match for men. Lady Grange in St. Kilda. Poetry of savages. French Literati. Prize-fighting. French and English soldiers. Duelling. September 20.
It is situated at the head of Loch Shiel. Jacobite Memoirs, p. 23. Introductory Notice, Athol Correspondence, p. ix. Pennant's Scotland, vol. i. p. 118. It has lately been proved, beyond doubt, that the parr is a young salmon, not a distinct fish. Pennant, p. 119. Jacobite Memoirs, pp. 26, 27. Henry Benedict, afterwards Cardinal York. Jacobite Memoirs, p. 31. See Forbes's Jacobite Memoirs, p. 51.
They were built of unhewn stone, but solid, and not inelegant. I brought away rude measures of the buildings, such as I cannot much trust myself, inaccurately taken, and obscurely noted. Mr. Pennant's delineations, which are doubtless exact, have made my unskilful description less necessary. The episcopal church consists of two parts, separated by the belfry, and built at different times.
They had many country commissions to execute this morning, which naturally took up a good deal of aunt Pennant's attention. But between each return from shop to carriage, in the intervals between one commission off her hands and another on her mind, she returned regularly to "that poor Miss Stanley, and those love-letters!" and she sighed.
Reynolds wrote of Johnson: 'He sometimes, it must be confessed, covered his ignorance by generals rather than appear ignorant' Taylor's Reynolds, ii. 457. 'The barracks are very handsome, and form several regular and good streets. Pennant's Tour, p. 144. See ante, p. 45. Here Dr.
Pure joy! how far from it Helen's sigh told; and Miss Clarendon had scarcely patience enough with Lady Cecilia to look at her again; had scarcely seconded, at least with good grace, a suggestion of Mrs. Pennant's that they should prevail on Lady Cecilia to take a turn in the park with them, she looked so much in want of fresh air.
'To DR. SAMUEL JOHNSON. 'I beg leave to address you in behalf of our friend Dr. Percy, who was much hurt by what you said to him that day we dined at his house ; when, in the course of the dispute as to Pennant's merit as a traveller, you told Percy that "he had the resentment of a narrow mind against Pennant, because he did not find every thing in Northumberland."
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