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amply qualified to narrate the circumstances of his friend's 
life. Mr. Smith readily entered into my views and wishes: 
he procured from Mr. Clarke, the brother-in-law, and several 
other relatives of our deceased friend, various documents, 
and original mss., and journals, which they obligingly con- 
fided to his care; and notwithstanding the laborious duties 
of an extensive Highland parish, and much family affliction, 
Mr. Smith has furnished me with the following interesting. 
sketch of the life and pursuits of Capt. Carmichael.—W. J. H.] 
Wnurz it is highly desirable that every country should have 
its just share of credit for the men of literature and science 
which it has produced, there is no individual, considered in 
himself, to whom the place of his birth has been less impor- 
tant in forming his character, than the naturalist, and with 
whom, therefore, it may be less necessary to record it. Not 
because his life reflects no honour on his natal soil, nor 
because he is himself insensible to the glow of patriotism ; 
but because the sympathies of the naturalist extend beyond - 
his own home, and Universal Nature claims his attention. 
Amidst the multitude of organised beings, the individuality 
of his own being is less to him than to others. His eye 
ranges from pole to pole, while his hand is stretched over 
mountain and valley, lake and wood, and the spot which has 
presented him with a new genus or a peculiar formation, 
becomes attractive to his thoughts as the dwelling-place of 
his fathers. His breath seems as if first drawn where he 
experienced the ecstacy that arises from the conviction of 
having discovered what had escaped the observation of others, 
and which stands hitherto recorded only in the annals of the - 
Almighty in creation. The naturalist thus becomes the 
revealer, as it were, of a little world, wherein the Divine 
power and wisdom are displayed in new relations ; and, while 
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mountains near I nverary. Among other Muscological rarities, he has recently 
gathered there Hypnum rufescens and Hypnum Crista-castrensis, in fruit; Gym- 
nostomum lapponicum, Griffithianum and viridissimum, Weissia. recurvata and 
trichodes, and Grimmia torquata. 
