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determined that, on leaving school, he should 
remove to Oxford. Theday of his departure 
was accordingly fixed, and a horse was pro- 
vided for the journey. But as the time drew 
near, his parents, who had a numerous family, 
and were far from being in affluent circum- 
stances, grew discouraged at the prospect of 
expences that were unavoidable, and at the un- 
certainty of eventual success. Whilethey were 
thus hesitating, Mr. Jones, an eminent apo- 
thecary of Wrexham, decided the point, by 
proposing to take Mr. Henry asan apprentice ; 
and to this measure, though deeply feeling the 
disappointment of long indulged hopes, he 
could not deny the reasonableness of assent- 
ing. With Mr. Jones he continued, till that 
gentleman died suddenly from an attack of 
gout, when he was articled, for the remain- 
der of the term, to a respectable apothecary 
at Knutsford in Cheshire. 
_ In neither of these situations did Mr. 
Henry enjoy any extraordinary opportunities 
of improvement. The only book, which he 
remembered to have been put into his hands, 
by either of his masters, was the Latin edi- 
tion of Boerhaave’s Chemistry, in two vols. 
quarto, a work, which, whatever may have 
been its merits, was certainly not calculated 
to present that science to a beginner under a 
