.DR. DARWIN. 17 



worth, a man of fortune, and recently mar- 

 ried to a Mifs Ellars of Oxfordfhire. The 

 fame of Dr. Darwin's various talents allured 

 Mr. E. to the city they graced. Then 

 fcarcely two and twenty, and with an ex- 

 terior yet more juvenile, he had mathe- 

 matic fcience, mechanic ingenuity, and a 

 competent portion of claffical learning, with 

 the pofleffion of the modern languages. 

 His addrefs was gracefully fpirited, and 

 his converfation eloquent. t^e danced, he 

 fenced, and winged his arrows with more 

 than philofophic Ikill ; yet did not the con- 

 fcioufnefs of thefe lighter endowments abate 

 his ardour in the purfuit of knowledge. 



After having eftabUfhed a friendfliip and 

 correfpondence with Dr. Darwin, Mr. Edge- 

 worth did not return to Lichfield till the 

 fummer of the year 1770. With him, at 

 that period, came the late Mr. Day, of 

 Bear-hill, in Berkfhire. Thefe young men 

 had been fellow-ftudents in the university 

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