556 SAMUEL CABOT. 



led him always to undervalue his ability and attainments, a purity so 

 feminine that it was respected even by the wilder men whom he 

 chanced to encounter in his youth, and a strong and vivid imagination 

 both in his experiments and recreations. 



His ruddy face under a mass of curly hair always beamed with a 

 genial light ; and he seemed to glow with exuberant life and enthu- 

 siasm while he discussed some important subject in a slow rather 

 hesitating manner, as if his abundant ideas found difficulty in gaining 

 utterance. It seems impossible to believe that this overflowing vitality 

 is no longer with us. 



Charles Loring Jackson. 



