MEMOIR OF PALLAS. 



to tliose of our own country, and for every literary 

 communication it was in his power to supply. 

 When we delivered our letters of recommendation 

 to him, he received us rather as a parent than a 

 stranger to whose protection we had been consigned. 

 We refused to intrude by occupying apartments in 

 his house : this had more the appearance of a palace 

 than the residence of a private gentleman ; but one 

 day when we were absent upon an excursion, he 

 caused all our things to be moved, and upon our 

 return we found a suite of rooms prepared for our 

 reception, with every convenience for study and 

 repose, I consider myself indebted to him even for 

 my life. The fatigue of travelling, added to the 

 effect of bad air and unwholesome food, rendered a 

 quartan fever so habitual to me, that, had it not 

 been for his care and skill, I should not have lived 

 to make this grateful acknowledgment. He pre- 

 scribed for me ; administered every medicine with 

 his own hands; carefully guarded my diet; and, 

 after nursing me as his own son, at last restored me 

 to health. When I recovered, he ransacked his 

 museum for drawings, charts, maps, books, anti- 

 quities, minerals, and whatever else might gratify 

 our curiosity, or promote the object of our travels ; 

 he accompanied us upon the most wearisome excur- 

 sions, in search not only of the insects and plants of 

 the country, but also of every document likely to 

 illustrate either its ancient or its modern history. 

 His decline of life had been embittered by a variety 

 of afflictions, which he bore with stoical philoso- 



