42 MEMOIR OF DR WRIGHT. 



a limitation of its efficacy which Dr Wright ascer- 

 tained to be erroneous. 



On his arrival in Liverpool, on the 5th of October 

 1777, he found that the debility produced by the 

 fever, and the discomforts attending a tedious passage 

 in stormy weather, had considerably impaired his 

 general health. To this was added the state of hazard 

 and uncertainty attending a West India investment 

 of property, which at that time was greatly enhanced 

 by the alarm which had arisen as to the future stabi- 

 lity of the whole trans-atlantic possessions of the 

 crown. Above all, he was agitated by the contending 

 emotions created by the desire to proceed to Scot- 

 land, and embrace his parents and his friends ; and by 

 the opposing calls of prudence and of duty which re- 

 quired him to direct his steps to the metropolis, for 

 the superintendance and protection of his own pecuni- 

 ary interests, with those of his partner Dr Steel, and 

 other friends in Jamaica, the charge of which his obli- 

 ging disposition had prompted him to undertake. 

 These latter considerations predominated ; and after 

 recruiting his strength for a few days at Liverpool, he 

 proceeded by easy stages to London. 



During his stay in London, Dr Wright resided with 

 his friend Dr Gartshore, who had established him- 

 self in a lucrative and respectable practice in St Martin's 

 Lane, in the obstetric department of the profession. 

 The correspondence he had long maintained on lite- 

 rary and scientific subjects with Mr Banks and Dr So- 

 lakdeb, those accomplished naturalists, and enlight- 

 ened men, who had already circumnavigated the globe 

 in quest of knowledge, afforded him a ready introduc- 



