INTRODUCTION. XXXI 



i> her phenomena, no fooner had I finifhed my 

 medical education, than I made a journey to 

 England. This journey was foon followed by 

 another to the Alps, where the foil affords a pro- 

 digious variety of fpecimcns, owing to the dif- 

 ference of the temperature of thofe lofty moun- 

 tains- 



I afterwards vifited part of Afia Minor, where 

 I refided two years, in order to difcover there the 

 plants, of which the Greek and Arabic phy- 

 ficians have left us very imperfect defcriptions : 

 of thefe I had the fatisfaction of bringing home 

 fome very fine collections. 



I had not been long returned from thefe laft 

 travels, when the National AfTembly gave orders 



for the equipment of two fhips, for the purpofe 

 of endeavouring to fave at leafl a part of the 



wreck of the expedition commanded by La 



Peroufe. 



It was an honour to be of the number of thofe 



who were to make every poffible fearch in order 



to refiore to their country men to whom fhe 



owed fo much. 



In other refpects this voyage held out many 



temptations 



