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mendation, to admit himself a Fellow-commoner of Jesus 

 College, and to accompany his tutor to Cambridge ; with an 

 understanding, which was equally agreeable to both, that after a 

 certain time spent in preparatory study, they should undertake 

 some journey to the Continent together. The pecuniary part 

 of the proposal was very liberal; the plan was entered upon 

 without delay ; and during the next twelvemonth, Mr. Clarke 

 resided constantly with his pupil at Jesus College. 



Mr. Clarke and the early and intimate friend who has become 

 his biographer, the Rev. W. Otter, had long entertained a 

 scheme of going abroad together, and during this year of his 

 residence in Cambridge, he often urged upon Mr. O. the imme- 

 diate execution of this plan. As no part of the Continent was 

 then open to English travellers, but the north of Europe, it was 

 at length determined, after various plans had been proposed and 

 rejected, that they should visit Norway and Sweden, with as 

 much of Russia besides, as could be comprehended within the 

 extended limits of a long summer vacation. Mr. Cripps was of 

 course of this party from the beginning, and with it was after- 

 wards associated a gentleman since highly distinguished in the 

 literary world, Professor Malthus. 



The party set out from Cambridge on the 20th of May, 1799, 

 and the journey which was at first intended to occupy only six 

 or seven months, was continued by Mr. Clarke and his pupil for 

 more than three years and a half, having been concluded in the 

 latter end of November, 1802. Their companions, adhering to 

 the original arrangement, left them near Lake Wener, in Sweden, 

 and thence proceeded to the south of Norway. 



Dr. Clarke's " Travels " having been so extensively perused, 

 and the general course of the tour being in consequence so well 

 known, we shalldismiss the subject with the following brief state- 

 ment of its extent, extracted from a letter to Mr. Otter, dated Con- 

 stantinople, Feb. 15, 1 802 : — " In examining the extent of our tra- 

 vels by Mercator's chart, I found they comprehend no less than 

 45 degrees of east longitude, from the meridian of Greenwich to 

 that of Cape St. Mary,"in the isle of Madagascar ; and 38°30 / 30 // 

 of North latitude. We have visited three of the four quarters ; 

 Europe, Asia, and Africa; and certainly in Asia, the tract we 

 passed over comprehends no small field of inquiry. The globe 

 offers very little variety of climate, to which we have not been 

 exposed, and in the examination of its productions, we have the 

 satisfaction to hope, that you will neither reproach us with idle- 

 ness nor neglect." The travellers left Constantinople in the suite 

 of the Ottoman Ambassador to France, and passing through 

 Bulgaria, Wallachia, Transylvania, and Hungary, arrived at 

 Vienna in May, whence they set out for Paris in the beginning 

 of July, and returned to England in October, 1802; Mr. C. 



