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contained more than 400 fpecies, many of them rare and 

 of foxeign growth. 



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It was the natural wifh of his parents that their fon C 



thould be brought up to the miniftry ; for which purpofe 1^ 



he was, till the age of ten years, inftrudled by his father \ 



in the nccefTary elementary books, and in the rudiments 

 of the la in language. During this period his favo.ite 

 occupation was eagerly purfued, and his regard for it 

 ftrengthened by encouragement from his father, who in 

 his eighth year allotted him a feparate piece of ground, 

 which was denominated Charle's garden. Into this fpot 

 he colle£led not only fuch plants as were around him, 

 but whatever native fpccies he could procure by his ex« 

 curfions in the neighbourhood \ forming at this early 

 period of his life a real botanical garden if\ miniature. 



At the age of ten years he was fent to the latin 

 fchool in the town of Wexicoe. The reclor of this 

 fchool, Lanaerius, was hiaifelf a lover of botany, and 

 probably relaxed fomewhat of the rigour of difcipline 

 towards a pupil whofe extraordinary paflion for a far 

 vourite ftudy of his own he muft have regarded with 

 complacency, and which he muft at leaft have confidered 

 as innocent. In this place he remained feven years, and 

 was then removed to the upper college at Wexicoe. 



Here it was foon perceived that his purfuits had been all 

 abforbjed in his eagernefs after flowers and infef^s, and 

 ^hat the ftudies necefTary to qualify him for a clerical 

 avocation had been irremediably neglected: and after 



