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JOHN LEWIS BuRCKH'AlTDTrtne celebrated Oriental 

 traveller, although a foreigner by birth, is so inti- 

 mately associated with the exertions of British 

 enterprise in the cause of physical and geographical 

 discovery, that England may justly claim him as 

 her adopted son. Although not professedly a na- 

 turalist, yet his labours, like those of Bruce, the 

 explorer of the Nile, have indirectly contributed to 

 the advancement of natural science, and established 

 a claim for him to have his name enrolled among 

 those eminent men whose lives have been exclu- 

 sively or professionally devoted to scientific pur- 

 suits. 



Mr. Burckhardt was descended from a highly 

 respectable Swiss family, and born at Lausanne in 

 1784. He was the eighth child of Colonel John 

 Rodolph Burckhardt, commonly called Burckhardt 

 of Kirshgarten, from the name of his mansion in 

 the city of Basle, where his ancestors had long re- 

 sided. Until the unprovoked invasion of Switzer- 

 land by the Republican arms of France, there was 



