DR. DARWIN. 



cut of his mouth as he walked along. She 

 has often, cf late years, met him in the 

 ftreets of Lichfield, alone and rnufing, and 

 never witnefled a cuftom fo indecent. 

 From the early lofs of his teeth he looked 

 much 'older than he was. That lofs ex- 

 pofes the tongue to view while fpeaking, 

 and Dr. Darwin's mouth certainly thus 

 difclofed the ravages of time, but by no 

 means in any offenfive degree. 



It was the general opinion that a glafi 

 of brandy might have faved him for that 

 time. It's effecls would have been more 

 powerful from his utter difufe of fpirits; 

 but fiich was the abhorrence in which he 

 held them, that it is probable no intreatics 

 could have induced him to have fwallowed 

 a dram, though furely, on any fudden chill 

 of the blood, it's effecT;, fo injurious on 

 habitual application, might have proved 

 restoring. 



. On that laft morning, he had written 



one 



