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blameable than errors of faith, he has earnestly 
wished to avoid.” 
After such a declaration, which is justified by the 
forbearance, or rather disinclination, to make any 
offensive remarks on the religion of a country 
among whose members he had met with acknow- 
ledged hospitality and great kindness, he never- 
theless was so unlucky as to incur very serious 
reprehension, from an unknown hand, upon this 
very subject and some others; all contained in a 
long letter sent him two or three years after the 
publication of his Tour. 
This letter, however amusing it occasionally proved 
to the person to whom it was addressed, might be 
considered too long to insert, and as Sir James never 
knew who was the writer of it, it cannot be said 
that he lost a friend; but he was so unfortunate as 
to wound the feelings, very undesignedly, of our late 
Queen Charlotte, by an expression in speaking of 
the Queen of France, which seems never to have 
been obliterated from Her Majesty’s remembrance, 
and occasioned the withdrawing of her favour, al- 
though the offending epithet was expunged in the 
second edition of his Tour. 
It happened some time in the year 1791, that Sir 
James’s friend, Dr. Goodenough bishop of Carlisle, 
being about to write a botanical paper on the Bri- 
tish species of Carex, had occasion to consult the 
herbarium of Mr. Lightfoot. This had been bought 
by His Majesty George III. on the death of its ori- 
ginal possessor, and presented to the Queen. Dr. 
Goodenough obtained permission to examine it: 
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