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your kindness to me deserves. I am in hopes that I shall 

 be able to come some day in the course of the next week ; 

 but, as my journey must be a pedestrian one, I should 

 not wish to mention a particular day." 



" On the 10th of April, four days after the date of this 

 letter, he arrived," says Dr. L., " at my house, and took 

 up his residence in my family. He made his promise 

 good, for in six weeks he had acquired more knowledge 

 in the different departments of medical science, than 

 most students do in a year. During this short period he 

 not only read Chaptal, Fourcroy, Chesselden, Murray, 

 Brown, Cullen, Rush, Sydenham, Sharp, and Cooper, but 

 wrote annotations on each, including critical remarks on 

 the incongruities in their reasonings. He remained with 

 me five months, and at the end of that time, you would 

 have imagined from his conversation, that he was an 

 Edinburgh graduate. When he sat down to study, so 

 completely was he absorbed by his subject, that it seemed 

 as though the amputation of one of his limbs would 

 scarcely withdraw his attention." 



A circumstance having no connection with the rela- 

 tion between him and his benefactor, but involving them 

 both, led to premature separation. One or both of them 

 were requested by the political party to which they be- 

 longed, to deliver orations on the approaching Fourth of 

 July. Dr. L. began at the appointed hour, and went 

 through with his discourse, but attempts were made by 

 the opposite party to offer insult and create disturbance ; 



