232 STUDIES OF NATURE, 



*' let, by five great canals, under the adjacent 

 *' mountain of the Euripus, between Negropont 

 " and Talanda, through which the water of the 



George JVheelcr Englifli. They travelled in company over the 

 Archipelago. The former brought home with him a great col- 

 Jeftion of Greek infcriptions and epitaphs ; and the literati of 

 the lafi: age cried him up highly. The other has given us the 

 names and charafters of a great many very curious plants, 

 which grow on the ruins of Greece, and which, in my opinion, 

 convey a very attecling intereft into his relations. He is little 

 known among us. 



According to the defcriptive titles which each of thefe Gentle- 

 men alTumed, Jacob Span was a Phyfician aflbciate of Lyons, 

 and an eager inveftigator of the monuments of men. George 

 Wheeler was a Country Gentleman, and enthufiaftically attached 

 to thofe of Nature. Their talks, to judge from iîtuations, 

 cuoht to have been reverfed ; and that the Gentleman fhould 

 have been fond of monumental infcriptions, and the Phyfician 

 of plants ; but, as we fliall have occafion to obferve, in the fe- 

 quel of thefe Studies, our paflions fpring out of contrarieties, 

 and are, almofi: always, in oppofition to our conditions. It was 

 from an effete of this harmonic law of Nature, that, though 

 thefe Travellers were, the one Engliih, and the other French, 

 they lived in the moft perfeft union. I remark, to their honour, 

 that they quote each other in terms of the higheft refpeft and 

 approbation. 



Minifters of State, would yo\i form Societies which fliall be 

 cordially united among themfelves, do not alTort Academicians 

 with Academicians, Soldiers with Soldiers, Merchants with 

 Merchants, Monks with Monks, but aflbciate Men of oppofite 

 conditions, and you will bçhold harmony pervade the aflbcia- 

 tion ; provided, however, that you exclude the ambitious, 

 which is, indeed, no eafy tafls., ambition being one of the firft 

 vices which our mode of education inftils. 



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