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seen losses, without being solicited, he lent them 

 money to ward off the evil, and to serve their need. 

 The publication of the " Quadrupeds " led me 

 into a close intimacy with Solomon Hodgson* and 

 others of his friends, and also with other men of 

 distinguished abilities, with Andrew Young, 

 M.D., t Samuel Burton Pearson, M.D., { and 

 Nathan Surgeon, surgeon. These men were 

 eminent in their professions, and were besides of 

 charitable, humane and noble dispositions. There 

 were also others \vith whom I occasionally spent 

 my evenings over a cheerful glass in their 

 agreeable company, viz., the Revd. John Hogarth 

 (afterwards Rector of Kirknewton) my friend the 

 Revd. Richard Oliphant, John Stokoe, Architect, 

 and John Howard, || the author of a work on 

 Spherical Geometry. To enumerate one half of 

 the people with whom I was acquainted would 

 swell the list to an extent that might be weari- 

 some to read over; but I may venture to name a 

 few with whom I was in habits of intimacy, and 

 who also stood pre-eminent on account of their 

 great worth, and the estimation in which they were 

 held by the public. Among the first was William 



* Solomon Hodgson, the bold and independent Editor of the 

 " Newcastle Chronicle," died 4th April 1800, aged 39, and was buried 

 at St. John's. 



t Andrew Young died in March 1806, and was buried at St. 

 Andrew's. 



+ Dr. Pearson, who had left Newcastle, and resided near Penrith, 

 died there. 



Nathan Surgeon died November 1817, and was buried at St. 

 John's. 



ii John Howard died 26th March, 1799, and was buried at St. 

 John's. 



