24 MEMOIR OF RONDELET. 



rosity and ardent love of letters. You may there- 

 fore rightly claim this production, which first saw 

 the light in your own house, and which (as bears lick 

 their clumsy young into shape) I have polished and 

 enlarged as much as I could in consistency with my 

 public duty as a teacher, and attention to my do- 

 mestic affairs. Now that I think it in a condition 

 to be presented, I send it to you, to testify my 

 ardent good wishes towards yourself, and eager desire 

 to make some return for the benefits I have re- 

 ceived." 



Had it not been for these frequent and extended 

 journeys in the Cardinal's company, his observations 

 would have been almost necessarily confined to the 

 productions of the Mediterranean. But a visit to 

 Amsterdam enabled him to examine certain parts 

 of the coasts of the German Ocean, and another to 

 Saintonge afforded him an opportunity of repairing 

 to Bordeaux and Bayonne, where he made every 

 exertion to make himself acquainted with the fishes 

 of the adjoining parts of the Atlantic. In November 

 1549, he went with his patron to Rome, and resided 

 with him there upwards of a year ; and on his place 

 being supplied by Antoine Pellitier, another physi- 

 cian of Montpellier, he made a pretty extensive 

 tour through Northern Italy, visiting Venice and the 

 principal universities, in particular those of Pisa, 

 Boulogna, Ferrara, and Padua. He returned to 

 Montpellier in June 1551, and never afterwards 

 left it, except to a comparatively short distance and 

 for a temporary purpose. 



