MEMOIR OF DK v.'KK.liT. ( 2^i 



and my health is quite re-established. However Tom 

 and I are heartily siek of this nay of life, and long for 

 the time when we can leave it with a good grace, 

 that is, when we can do without it." 



Having erected a house on their plantation, and 

 named it Orangehill, the two partners went to reside 

 there in the year 1771. By this time their slaves 

 amounted to thirty-three, so that it became necessary 

 to engage a white man to superintend them 



In this year, also, he began his magnificent collection 

 of dried plants, arranged and described according to the 

 system of Linn..: is. A copy of the third edition of 

 the Species Plantarum, printed in 1764, is now in the 

 possession of Dr THO.vsoNof Glasgow, in which all 

 those species are marked, amounting in number to 7i>l, 

 which had been examined and verified by Dr Weight 

 during his residence in Jamaica. The popular names, 

 by which they were known in the island, are generally 

 added, and reference is made to those elaborate pro- 

 ductions of BnowNE and Sloane, to which the na- 

 tural history of Jamaica is so much indebted, in every 

 case where the great Swedish naturalist himself had 

 omitted to do so. -V point of interrogation has been 

 placed against a number of additional species, to indi- 

 cate probably that Dr Wright had not fully satis- 

 fied himself of their identity with the specimens which 

 had fallen under his observation. These particulars 

 are recorded as affording some indication of the pro- 

 gress which Dr Wright was making in this fascina- 

 ting study, and of the origin of that splendid herba- 

 rium which he had accumulated during his residence 



