ISLAND OF CEYLON. 



fplendid work in 1776, with the title of * New Illustrations 

 * OF Zoology,' under the patronage of my late worthy friend 

 Marmaduke 'Tuyijlal', Efq. and myfelf. 



From the fame colle<5lion was formed my Indian Zoology, 

 begun In 1769, and left a fragment. It was refumed and pub- 

 liflied more complete in one volume quarto, in 1790. I refer 

 the reader to the preface to that work for an account of its rife 

 and progrefs. 



Mr. Lotcn returned into Europe in 1758, and coming into 

 'England^ where he lived feveral years, in 1765 he married his 

 fecond wife, Lcztitia Cotes, of the refpedtable houfe of CoteSy 

 in SbropJJnre, feveral years after which he returned into Hol- 

 kind, and died at Utrecht, on February 25, 1789, aged eighty, 

 and was interred in St. Jacob's church in that city. During 

 the whole of my acquaintance with him, at frequent periods he 

 endured the moft fevere fpafmodic complaints in his cheft, 

 which for months together difabled him from the ufe of a bed. 

 I fhould not have mentioned thefe circumftances, was it not to 

 add to his other virtues, thole of unfeigned piety, and refig- 

 nation unexampled amidft the trial of fevereft mifery. 



In the north aide, weft ward of JVeJlm'mJler Abby, is a moft 

 magnificent cenotaph, ere£ted in 1795, to perpetuate the me- 

 mory of this excellent man, the performance of Thomas 

 Banks. A fingle figure, reprefenting Generofity attended by a 

 lion, fuftains a medallion of his head; and on a pedeftal is a brief 

 hiftory of his life and his charadter, in Latin. There is another 

 infcription, confifting of the fifteenth pfalm (excepting the laft 



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