TOUR IN SCOTLAND; MDCCLXIX. TROS TYRIUSQUE mihi nullo difcrimine agetur. FOURTH EDITION. DOWNING LONDON, MDCCLXXVI. то SIR ROGER MOSTYN, BAR". O F MOSTYN, FLINTSHIRE. DEAR SIR, A GENTLEMAN well known to the political world in the beginning of the present century made the tour of Europe, and before he reached Abbeville discovered that in order to fee a country to beft advantage it was infinitely preferable to travel by day than by nigut. I CANNOT help making this applicable to myself, who, after publishing three volumes of the Zoology of GREAT BRITAIN, found out that to be able to speak with more precision of the subjects I treated of, it was far more prudent to visit the whole than part of my country: ftruck therefore with the reflection of having never feen SCOTLAND, I instantly ordered my baggage to be got ready, and in a reafonable time found myself on the banks of the Tweed. |