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| | Chapter Pennant <i>to</i> Phillips of P by Biographical Dictionary of English Literature |
 | | Pennant, Thomas (1726-1798).Naturalist and traveller, born in Flintshire, and educated at Oxford, was one of the most distinguished naturalists of the 18th century, and published, among other works on natural history, British Zoology (1768), and History of Quadrupeds (1781). |
 | | In literature he is, however, best remembered by his Tours in Scotland (1771-75), which did much to make known the beauties of the country to England. |
 | | It was written in a cypher or shorthand, which was translated into long-hand by John Smith in 1825, and edited by Lord Braybrooke, with considerable excisions. |
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