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kaowledge. Sach indeed were the extenfive views he 

 took of every fubjecl, and fo luminous was the arrange- 

 ment he put them in, and lo vigorous were the powers 

 of his mind, that the writer has often regretted he was 

 ever permitted to teach any one branch of fcience long- 

 er than two or three years ; during which time he could 

 have formed a fchool capable of going on without his 

 aid. After this was accompliihed, Cullea fhould have 

 been appointed to teach another oranch, and another 

 ftill, till he had gone round the whole circle of the 

 fciences. This idea will no doubt to many appear ab- 

 furd ; but to thofe who have had opportunities of hear- 

 ing him incidentally in converfation touch upon fubjects, 

 on which it could fcarcely be thought his other avocations 

 would have allowed him to fpend a thought, willnotbe 

 furprifed at this idea. No one will fuppofs that either 

 Logic or Mathematics would be ftudies that could 

 have much attrafted his notice ; yet the writer of this 

 has incidentally heard Doctor CuUen, in the courfe of 

 not many minutes converfatjon, throw out fuch ideas 

 on both thefe fabjefts, as plainly lliewed, that had he 

 been required to give leclures upon them, he could have 

 done it in a manner that would have been equally plea- 

 ling and artonilhing nearly, as on chemiftry, or any 

 other fubje.51: lie ever taught ; and as a profelTor of 

 natural philofophy, it is perhaps impoffible to form an 

 idea of the ardour he would have excited, or the innu- 

 merable exertions that would have been made in con- 

 fequence of it, to perfeil this great and mod ufeful 

 branch of fcience. 



To draw a jull character of Doctor Ciillen, would 

 require talents much greater than the writer of thefe 

 remarks can claim, and a degree of knowledge he does 

 not poffefs : He therefore declines the tafk. — The fol- 

 lowing traits, commun:c"ited by a friend, appear to him 

 Jo' ju;t, that he begs leave here to tranfcribe them. 

 They were written by a man who knew the Doclor 

 well, in h:i public as well as his private capacity. 



