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approaching conclusion of this " highly valuable 

 and honourable work on Scitaminece, one of the few 

 really original valuable and learned works in botany 

 that this age has seen." 



The following imitation of the style of Ossian, by 

 Sir James, may not be considered misplaced here : 

 it is recalled to recollection by its title of ''Allerton," 

 though it was written many years before the author 

 had any knowledge of Mr. Roscoe, or of the spot 

 where their friendship was begun and so happily 

 matured ; and the scenery it describes applies, al- 

 most as aptly as the name, to the residence of him 

 who, in every place and situation, was the individual 

 round whom Sir James's pride and his affection 

 equally rallied, and who, to express his esteem for 

 the subject of this memoir, had called him by the 

 flattering appellation " the friend of my early days 

 but lately found." 



" Fair art thou, O Allerton ! Lovely are thy 

 green places and thy pleasant groves. The forests 

 of Gleddow are spread out as a carpet before thee, 

 and thou numberest the cattle upon a thousand hills. 

 The great and the wealthy daily offer up incense at 

 thy feet. 



" The north wind maketh unto himself bowers 

 of thy myrtles, and slumbereth on the velvet of thy 

 lawn. Thy fair plants bow before him at his 

 awakening, and thy saplings are nursed in the 

 storm. 



" Terrible art thou, O Allerton, when the tern- 



