326 Geography, 



ever, prosecuted with undiminished excellence and 

 success; and furnishes at once very reputable spe- 

 cimens of the learning, talents and zeal of many 

 American physicians; and a most useful vehicle 

 for conveying to the public a knowledge of every 

 improvement in the science of medicine. 



CHAPTER V. 



GEOGRAPHY. 



As few sciences are more interesting than Geo- 

 graphy, so few have received more attention, or 

 been more improved and extended during the pe- 

 riod under consideration. At the beginning of 

 the century, almost half the surface of the globe 

 was either entirely unknown, or the knowledge of 

 it was so small and indistinct, as to be of little 

 practical value. Since that time such discoveries 

 and improvements have been made, that geography 

 has assumed a new face, and become almost a new 



to the city of New- York in 1793, where he remained until 1798, when 

 he fell a victim to the yellow fever, which raged with so much violence in 

 the city in the autumn of that year. The surviving Editors of the Medical 

 Repository speak of their deceased colleague in the following honourable 

 terms. 



" As a physician, his loss is irreparable. He had explored, at his early 

 ■age, an extent of medical learning, for which the longest lives are seldom 

 found sufficient. His diligence and activity, his ardour and perseverance, 

 knew no common bounds. The love of science and the impulse of philan- 

 thropy directed his whole professional career,and left little room for the calcu- 

 lations of emolument. He had formed vast designs of medical improvement, 

 which embraced the whole family of mankind, were animated by the soul 

 of benevolence, and aspired after every object of a liberal and dignified 

 ambition. His writings, already published, incessantly awaken regret, that 

 the number of them is not greater. They display singular diligence and 

 acuteness of research, the talents of accurate and extensive observation, great 

 force and precision of reasoning, and the range of a vigorous and com-r 

 ■prehensive mind." Medical Repository^ v. ii. p. SI4, XIJ. second Editior>i 



