ii VISIT TO THE CONTINENT 17 



contact with a new religious movement in Germany, that 

 of the (Moravian) Brethren, but Fothergill was dis- 

 appointed in its professors ; their imaginations had been 

 beforehand, he thought, and gone beyond what they 

 knew from experience ; moreover, they were too full of 

 compliments to one another for the taste of the young 

 Quaker. 1 



1 See part of Fothergill's letter in elegant Latin to W. Cuming, 1740, in 

 The Works of John Fothergill, M.D., by J. C. Lettsom, iii. p. xvi ; MS. Letter 

 to I. Pemberton, 28. i. 1741, Coll. Phys. Phila. ; Mem. S. Fothergill, p. 82. 



Emma Fothergill (sister of Dr. W. E. Fothergill, p. 10 note) married Elbert 

 S. Clarke : these, with their son John Fothergill Clarke (died 1917) have 

 done much pioneer missionary work among the Bantu nations of southern 

 Africa. 



