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To these must be added the Rev. Henry Bryant, 
“aman of singular acuteness, well skilled in the ma- 
thematics, and sufficiently master of his time to de- 
vote a considerable portion of it to natural history.” 
And, Thomas Jenkinson Woodward, Esq., of Bun- 
gay in Suffolk, whom he terms “his intimate and 
much-loved friend, the most candid, liberal and ho- 
nourable of men.” The Fungi and Sea-weeds were 
the vegetable tribes he more particularly studied. 
To the late Dr. Manning, a physician of eminence, 
andto Robert Alderson, Esq., the present Recorder 
of Norwich, he considered himself more especially 
indebted for the accomplishment of his views towards 
going to Edinburgh to complete his education, and 
acquire what was necessary for the practice of physic, 
that being the profession towards which he at this 
time directed his attention. On the 14th of October, 
1781, he began his journey to Edinburgh. This 
was his first separation from an affectionate family 
and home, and it was not therefore with unmixed 
feelings of delight that he attained the object of his 
sanguine wishes. He has sometimes recurred with 
emotion to his distressing sensations, when he turned 
from his father and a beloved brother, who accom- 
panied him part of the way, to pursue the remainder 
of his journey alone. 
As aman of inflexible inaoaaiie in all his mer- 
cantile transactions, and of moderation blended with 
generosity in his domestic regulations, Mr. Smith 
had been distinguished among his townsmen; but 
in the correspondence which follows, the reader may 
view his character nearer still, and will sympathize 
