110 JEROME CARDAN. 



CHAPTER V. 



CARDAN IN EDINBUBGH. 



AFTER a rest in London of about three days, Cardan 

 and his companions were conducted northward by Cassa- 

 nate. The philosopher, journeying then in summer 

 weather through the provinces of England, had an oppor- 

 tunity of acquiring a more accurate notion of this remote 

 land than he before possessed. He did not, as he thought 

 he should, see our sheep watered upon morning dew, nor 

 did he find our sky very much darkened with crows 1 ; 

 what he did see, however, and think worth remembering 

 concerning Britain, it will be more proper to relate when 

 we approach the close of his experience among us. From 

 London to Edinburgh was a journey of twenty- three 

 days 3 , and on the 29th of June the Milanese physician 

 greeted personally his Scotch patient. 



Cardan remained with the archbishop until nearly the 



1 Ante, vol. ii. p. 66. 



2 Geniturarum Exemplar, p. 131. 



