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difficult occurrences. By him I was introduced to 

 many relpeftable acquaintances : and if I ever have 

 been, or ever fhali be of any ufe in the hterary world, 

 I feel a particuhr fatisfaclion in faying tliat it is en- 

 tirely owing to Doftor Cutlen. lnthisrefpecl:,however,- 

 I was by no means Angular ; for very many others, 

 ■who were in a fituation nearly fimilar to my own, 

 have ov/ed obligations to him of the fame kind. Such 

 was the generous, kind, and difmterefted chara£l:er of 

 this great man, that I can aver with the moll perfect 

 fincerity, that at one time, when a tranlaction of great 

 importance refpc£ting my private concerns was in agi- 

 tation, though he was then involved in the greateil hur- 

 ry of his own multiplied avocations, he ftill contrived 

 matters fo, as tliat for months together he bellowed at 

 leaft from one to two hoursadayon mv prii-ate concerns.- 

 Could I fufFer the memory of fuch beneficence to be 

 buried in oblivion, I fhould little indeed have deferved 

 fuch a favour ! Few are the men, who can conceive an 

 idea that fuch things could poihbly be done : but to 

 CuUen this was no exertion : to him fuch tranfacfions 

 were as mental food that transfufed frelh vigour into 

 his mind, and gave animation and energy to all his un- 

 dertakings. I am not fenfible of the obloquy to.^ 

 which I expofe myfelf, with fame, by this narrative ; 

 but their farcafms fhall be dilregarded. I dare noty 

 however, add to the length of this digreffion by any 

 farther apology. 



The firft lectures that Cullen delivered in Edinburgh 

 were on chemidry ; and for many years he alfo gave 

 clinical leftures on the cafes that occurred in the Royal 

 Infirmary there. Towards the clofe of the year 1*69, 

 he alfo delivered to a few of his private friends,' 

 a fliort courfc of lectures on the principles of agricul- 

 ture and vegetation, for which branch of knowledge- 

 he had, at every period of his life, a fingular and 

 marked predelection. Of this courfe of ic£lurcs, a 

 pretty compI;tc account is prcfen'ed, tlwt is now in 



