262r STUDIES OF NATURE. 



Auger de Bujbequius, Ambaflador from Ferdinand 

 the Firft, King of the Romans, to the Porte, in 

 other refpeds fo eftimable, from the charms of his 

 epiflolary correfpondence j and this fmall monu- 

 ment might be placed under the fhade of the li- 

 lach, which he tranfported from Conftantinople, 

 and of which he made a prefent to Europe *, in 

 1562. The lucern of Media fhould there furround, 

 with it's (hoots, the monument dedicated to the 

 memory of the unknown hufbandman, who firft 

 fowed it on our flinty hillocks, and who prefented 

 us with an article of pafture, in parched fituations, 

 which renovates itfelf at Icaft four times a year. 

 At fight of the folanum of America, which pro- 

 duces at it's root the potatoe, the poorer part of 

 the community would blefs the name of the man 

 who fecured to them a fpecies of aliment, which is 

 not liable, like corn, to fufFer by the inconflancy of 

 the elements, and by the granaries of monopolizers. 

 There too fhould be difplayed, not without a lively 

 intereft, the urn of the unknown Traveller who 

 adorned, to endlefs generations, the humble win- 

 dow of his obfcure habitation, with the brilliant 

 colours of Aurora, by tranfplanting thither the nun 

 of Peru -j~. 



* See Matthiola on Dïefcondes. 

 f For my own part, I would contemplate the monument of 

 that man, were it but a fimple tile, with more refpeft than the 

 fuperb roaufolea which have been reared, in many places of Eu- 



'^ rope. 



