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The Naval log is illustrated by sketches of ships, scenery, antiquities, etc., and accompanied by several poems and a dissertation on the putrid fever of St Lucia (folio 27). The scenes and incidents described include the West Indies, 1778-1779; Denmark and Zetland, 1780; the loss of the ‘Royal George’, 1782; and the battle of Cape St Vincent.

Scope and Contents Starting from London, the writer journeys by the eastern counties to Edinburgh, thence to Glasgow, and south by Hamilton, Crawfordjohn, and Moffat, a tract of country which he describes as the 'Western Highlands', to Lockerbie. The author notes customs and manners which he finds remarkable, and describes most of the important or interesting buildings.Tim Griffiths suggests that the unnamed author was a young man, possibly a university student, travelling with his tutor and a...