MEMOJRS OF 



London, was never exadlly underftood by 

 the writer of thefe memoirs. She knows 

 that the moft brilliant profpects of fuccefs 

 in the capital were opened to him, from 

 various quarters, early on his refidence at 

 Lichfield, and that his attention to them 

 was perpetually requefted by eminent 

 people. Undoubtedly thofe profpeds 

 acquired added ftrength and luftre each 

 year beneath the ever-widening fpread 

 of his fame. Confcious of his full habit 

 of body, he probably thought that the 

 eftablifhed cuftom of imbibing changed 

 and pure air by almoft daily journies into 

 the country, eflential to his health ; per- 

 haps to the duration of his life. In allu- 

 fion to that perpetual travelling, a gentle- 

 man once humoroufly directed a letter 

 " Dr. Darwin upon the road." When 

 himfelf wrote to Dr. Franklin, compli- 

 menting him on having united philofophy 

 to modern fcience, he directed his letter 



merely 



