154 Notice of British Naturalists. 
stant dependence upon his Creator. The distresses in which his 
poor neighbors were involved, gave him unfeigned uneasiness ; 
and he endeavored to relieve them by every means in his power. 
His name was long remembered by them with love and respect. 
But we cannot do better than to let him speak for himself, as re- 
gards his occupations and character. ‘TJ still haunt the bench of 
justices (1793). Tam now active in hastening levies of our gen- 
erous Britons into the field. However unequal, I still retain the 
same zeal in the services of my country, and have grown indig- 
nant at injuries offered to my native land; or have incited a vig- 
orous defence against the lunatic designs of enthusiastic tyranny; 
or the presumptuous plans of fanatical atheists to spread theit 
reign or force their tenets on the contented moral part of theit 
fellow creatures.” “I am often astonished at the multiplicity of 
my publications, especially when I reflect on the various duties 
which it has fallen to my lot to discharge, as a father of a fam- 
ily, landlord of a small but very numerous tenantry, and not an 
inactive magistrate. I had a great share of health during the lit 
erary part of my days: much of this was owing to the riding eX 
ercise of my extensive tours, to my manner of living, and to my 
temperance. I go to rest at ten; and rise, summer and winter, at 
seven ; and shave reguilarly at the same hour. I avoid the meal of 
excess—a supper; and my soul rises with vigor to its employ- 
ments, and I hope does not disappoint the end of its Creator.” 
“Thus far has passed my active life, even to the present yeal, 
1792, in which I have passed half way of my sixty-seventh yeal. 
My body may have abated its wonted vigor, but my mind still 
retains its wonted power, its longing for improvements, its wish 
to receive new lights through chinks which nature has ma a 
In his zoélogical works he includes the whole of the British 
vertebrated animals—testacea, crustacea, &c. His arrangement 
is founded upon that of Linnenus; but he occasionally alters his 
plan to that which seemed to him better adapted to the subject. 
instead of confining himself to mere description and classification, 
which was a prominent fault in previous works on natural history; 
and one which has not been avoided by succeeding British Natt 
ralists, he, as far as he is able, both introduces notices of habs 
and manners, and indulges in detail. His writings are still con 
sidered as standard works, and are still constantly referred to a0 
quoted. In some departments, very little has since been added, 
