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At Cambray, every time the clock struck two wooden 

 figures of men were seen striking the bell,' as at 

 Liibeck, He seems always struck with the mechanical 

 clocks. His is not the only great mind that has un- 

 bent to such toys. George Eliot speaks of watching the 

 ' revolving of the days as one might have watched a 

 wonderful clock, where the striking of the hours was 

 made solemn with antique figures advancing and re- 

 treating in monitory procession. 5 It brought a sense of 

 solemnity. How much Carl had done since he watched 

 the toy figures on the clock in Liibeck church ! But at 

 what a cost it was achieved ! 



' The road hence was paved with a kind of argilla- 

 ceous limestone. 1 Carl carried a very handsome letter 

 of introduction, dated May 1738, from Adrian van 

 Royen to ' [Joseph ?] f de Jussieu, the physician, 2 who 

 made him acquainted with his brother, the famous 

 Bernard de Jussieu, professor of botany at Paris. Carl 

 at once went to seek the professor at the Jardins des 

 Plantes. Here Bernard de Jussieu, brother of Joseph (?) 

 and botanical demonstrator, was describing some exotics 

 in Latin before a crowd, of students, and among them 

 the clever child Michael Adanson, then only eleven years 

 old, who was even thus early admitted to the lectures 



1 Marmor margaceum. 



2 Stoever calls him Antoine, and seems to have confounded him 

 with his still more celebrated nephew Antoine de Jussieu (Professor 

 Reg. ParieiensisX the great botanist. Smith speaks of the physician 

 uncle as Joseph ; he was also a remarkable botanist. One brother 

 Joseph was in Peru. 



