He has just returned from an extensive tour of the Highlands and Hebrides. He thinks the basaltic pillars and cave of Fingal on Staffa to be wonders of the world.
Nattes exhibited a picture of the cave at the
Royal Academy two years previously. He and his wife return southwards by the west road to see the lakes of Cumberland.
Humphry's letter was so out of date when he found it that he thinks the request within now redundant.