98 JOHN DUNCAN, WEAVER AND BOTANIST. 



things i' the warld ! " And what is John's exclamation but 

 an echo of Shakespeare's ? 



" There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, 

 Than are dreamt of in our philosophy." 



But, whatever his earlier predilections in favour of the 

 superstitions connected with this remarkable subject, 

 gathered from his earliest master, the English astrologer, 

 he would seem to have thrown the mentirely aside in the 

 later and more scientific period of his long life. 



