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come upon him had retarded the attainment of this his highest 

 object ; and now these were all removed — for he luckily hit upon 

 the following mode of regulating his progress as he wished. When 

 he wanted to go slowly, he covered his boots with a pair of trousers; 

 but when he wanted to go faster, he took them off. And this he 

 found to succeed most effectively ; then he could stride over hill 

 and mountain. Distance seemed to be almost annihilated. And 

 thus he visited every portion of the globe. One day, however, he 

 found himself in the uninhabited regions of the north, where the 

 cold being so intense and severe, he was so bitten by the frost, that 

 he had like to have lost his life before he could regain the civilized 

 country ; on gaining which, he found himself in a dreadful fever, and, 

 almost in despair of his life, he entered the first hospital he could 

 find. But judge of his astonishment when he found that this 

 hospital bore his own name ! 



The faithful youug lady to whom he was to have been married, 

 on his leaving the place, as we have already related, fell into a low 

 way, and died some time after of a broken heart, and her friends 

 according to her dying request, had founded this hospital in memory 

 of him to whom she had committed her dearest hopes and warmest 

 affections. Here he remained until his health was restored, every 

 attention being paid to his wants, and more especially on its becom- 

 ing known that he was the man to whom the institution was founded. 

 His health being now established he resolved still to prosecute his 

 investigations, and having obtained an immense collection of speci- 

 mens of plants and other remarkable productions of nature, from the 

 four quarters of the earth, he returned to Gennany, to his own 

 native hearth, where he commenced the publication of an universal 

 system of botany ; the work was justly celebrated at the period in 

 which it was written, whether there is a copy of it now extant our 

 informant cannot say, it is doubtful whether there is one in this 

 country. He also prepared a history of his voyages and travels, 

 lifom which the foregoing narrative has been extracted. 



