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BOTANICAL 



GARDEN 



MEMOIR 



AND 



CORRESPONDENCE 



OF 



SIR JAMES EDWARD SMITH. 



CHAPTER VII. 



Correspondence of Edmund Davall, Esq., — Sir James Edward 

 Smith, — and the Marchioness of Rockingham; — and two Letters 

 from Professor Afzelius. 



JL HE late Mr. Davall, of Orbe, was one whose 

 fondness for natural science led him to cultivate 

 an acquaintance with the subject of these pages, 

 which soon settled into a warm personal affection 

 on either side, and remained unimpaired through 

 their lives. 



An Englishman by birth, he was destined by cir- 

 cumstances to reside in Switzerland : but although 

 he lived in a beautiful country, surrounded by ob- 

 jects most pleasing to him, yet he seems to suffer 

 the pangs of an exile whenever he writes to his 

 friend. The yearnings of desire to be among those 

 who assimilate in pursuits, in intellectual and moral 

 taste, cannot be more forcibly expressed than in the 



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