OF AUCHER-ELOY. 171 
Halil Pacha, the Turkish Ambassador at Petersburg, in 
one of those fits of an impotent frenzy for civilization which 
Sultan Mahmoud had brought into fashion in his country, 
induced Aucher-Eloy to accompany him to Constantinople, 
there to establish a Turko- French newspaper: he went in the 
train of Halil Pacha, botanizing on the road, whenever he 
could seize an opportunity. No connected account seems 
to have been made of this journey, respecting which we 
know no more than is afforded by some scattered remarks, in 
his catalogue of plants collected on the way, chiefly in those 
Russian provinces, which border on the Black Sea. Mme. 
Aucher-Eloy and his daughter, after some little time, joined 
him at Constantinople. 
As he drew near * those realms of the East, that land of 
the Sun,” celebrated in history and so brilliantly adorned by 
nature, Aucher-Eloy felt all the ardour with which that 
country must ever inspire the man of education; a wide 
field of discovery was opening before him and he trusted to 
gain himself a name. Here, as elsewhere, the fair promises 
of Halil Pacha disappointed the hopes of our naturalist, who, 
unable to employ himself usefully otherwise, determined 
on undertaking a series of journeys in Turkey, Greece, 
Egypt, Syria, and Persia, with a view to collecting specimens, 
both of Botany and Zoology. The connexion, which he 
still kept up with the savans in Europe, would enable him, 
he trusted, to dispose of his collections in their cabinets. 
Eight years did he pursue this noble plan and still longer 
would he have pursued it, but death, the result of fatigue, 
closed his career. No person could be better adapted by 
nature, to follow this trying mode of life ; a robust constitu- 
tion and great energy of character, imparting such power as 
made him feel competent to endure the vicissitudes to which 
the travelling naturalist, with slender pecuniary means, is ever 
exposed. We, ourselves, have travelled in the East, but it 
Was under the most favourable circumstances, and possessing 
every facility for pursuing our investigations, and while ex- 
Ploring the less distant provinces of Asia Minor, we did not 
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