OO ANNOTATION. 



England drove Dr. Cogan hither also. They both 

 fixed upon Bath for their place of residence, surely 

 one of the best places in the wide world for the worn- 

 out veteran to sink gently to his last repose. Mr. 

 Simpson died at Bath, but not so Dr. Cogan. I 

 remember his telling me, when he had numbered 

 more than seventy years, that he preferred change 

 of scene to the uniformity of a life of station and 

 repose ; and he gave this as the reason, that the suc- 

 cession of new objects seemed to lengthen the days, 

 and weeks, and years, so few of which remained to 

 him. These two friends concurred in the invitation 

 which brought me to Bath, and were themselves 

 " ensamples to the flock " of which I was the pastor 

 for four-and-twenty years. 



[30] I am not, how^ever, sufficiently acquainted 

 with the history of Lichfield to know whether he had 

 lived here, or only came here to die, as so many have 

 done. 



[31] Of Gainsborough there is much said in the 

 memoirs of Richard Lovell Edgeworth, who was him- 

 self born in Pierrepoint-street. I know not whether 

 it is anywhere noticed that there is a wild spot near 

 the head of the railroad by which stone is transmitted 

 from the quarries above to the Kennet and Avon 



