90 JEROME CAKDAN. 



Hamilton to trust his brother out of reach, and it became, 

 therefore, impossible for him to go to France. 



Jerome, having replied to Cassanate's letter, heard 

 again from Scotland on the 12th of February ; and re- 

 ceiving then the money asked for to defray his travel- 

 ling expenses, he set out on the 23rd of the same 

 month for Lyons, where it was understood that his 

 journey possibly might end 1 . There it was possible that 

 he might meet the archbishop ; but if not, he was, at any 

 rate, there to be met by the archbishop's physician, with 

 a fresh remittance, in discharge of the cost of his journey 

 on to Paris. He travelled by way of Domo d'Ossolo and 

 the Simplon Pass, through Sion and Geneva, then from, 

 the Lake of Geneva straight to Lyons, reaching that 

 town after a journey of not quite three weeks 2 . There 

 he found neither archbishop nor archbishop's physician, 

 and remained thirty-eight days without any further 

 tidings of his patient. The illustrious Cardan, in Lyons, 

 was not, however, suffered to be idle; patients flocked to 

 him, he prescribed for many noblemen, and earned much 



1 See his own horoscope. Geniturarum Exemplar, p. 129. 



2 De Vita Prapria, pp. 19, 20, and for the next facts. He says there, 

 that he remained in Lyons forty-six days; but a correction of this and 

 of some other slight inaccuracies of date has been made by reference 

 to the Geniturarum Exemplar (written just after his return), where, 

 in discussing his own horoscope under the head of Journeys, he is 

 particular about all dates, and calculates the stars by which his in- 

 comings and outgoings were ruled. 



