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information in those branches of natural history, for which he 

 had early shown a decided taste, and to which he afterwards 

 owed so much of his celebrity. It was likewise the cause of his 

 first appearance before the public in the character of an author ; 

 he kept a journal of his tour, and at the request of some of his 

 young friends, upon his return, was induced to publish it. The 

 work is now exceedingly scarce, the greater part of the copies 

 having been destroyed or lost within a short period after its 

 publication. Indeed, Mr. Clarke himself soon learnt to have a 

 lower opinion of its merits than others perhaps, more considerate, 

 would be disposed to entertain, when the age and circumstances 

 of the author are taken into the account. 



In October, 1791, Mr. Tufton's brother being about to join 

 Lord Thanet in Paris, Mr. Clarke and his pupil seized the oppor- 

 tunity of passing over with him to Calais, and thus he who after- 

 wards traversed so large a portion of the globe, first set his foot 

 on foreign ground ; a circumstance which imparted to his ardent 

 mind the most delightful sensations. In the spring of the year 

 1792, his engagement with Mr. Tufton terminated; and Lord 

 Berwick, who had been of the same year with him in College, 

 and was now of age, proposed that Mr. Clarke should accompany 

 him, in the capacity of a friend, to Italy. This proposal was 

 soon agreed to, and about the middle of July, they set out on 

 their intended tour. As it was necessary to avoid the French terri- 

 tory, which was then agitated throughout by the paroxysm of its 

 ferocious revolution, they took the route of the Low Countries to 

 Cologne, and then ascending the Rhine to Schaffhausen, passed 

 from thence through Switzerland, by the way of Lucerne and 

 St. Gothard, to Turin. 



To a mind like that possessed by the subject of this memoir, 

 panting for foreign climes, and glowing with all the warmth of 

 poetic imagery, it was no small achievement to have thus passed 

 the barrier of the Alps, and to tread in the paths which had been 

 hallowed in his eyes by the footsteps of Addison and Gray. But 

 this was only a part of his enjoyment while on this tour. The 

 country which he had entered, abounded in scenes and objects 

 calculated, above all others, to awaken every pleasing association 

 connected with his early studies, and to gratify his prevailing 

 taste. The precious remains of antiquity dispersed throughout 

 Italy, the fine specimens of modern art, the living wonders of 

 nature, of which even the descriptions he had read, or the faint 

 resemblances he had seen, had been sufficient to kindle his 

 enthusiasm, were now placed before his eyes, and submitted to 

 his contemplation and inquiry ; nor were the Springs and 

 resources of his own mind unequal to the excitement which was 

 thus powerfully acting upon them. At no period, even of his 

 subsequent life, does beseem to have exerted himself with more 

 spirit, or with better elfect. He made large and valuable adcli- 



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