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GERARDE'S portrait (a fine one) is prefixed to his own 

 edition of his Herbal. Two coats of arms are at the bottom. 

 No painter, or engraver's name, except the initials, W. R. 

 intertwined, which I suppose are those of W. Rogers, the 

 engraver. There is another good head of Gerarde, a small 

 oval one, in the title page to Johnson's edition. A portrait, 

 in oil, of Gerarde, was sold by Mr. Christie, Nov. 11, 1826. 

 Dr. Pulteney reviews both these Herbals. Gerarde is highly 

 extolled by Dr. Bulleyn, and indeed attained deserved emi- 

 nence in his day. Dr. Pulteney relates that " the thousand 

 novelties which were brought into England by our circum- 

 navigators, Raleigh and Cavendish, in 1580 and 1588, ex- 

 cited a degree of attention, which at this day cannot, without 

 the aid of considerable recollection, be easily conceived. 

 Raleigh himself appears to have possessed a larger share of 

 taste for the curious productions of nature, than was common 

 to the seafaring adventurers of that period. And posterity 



trious author : " No member of his speech but consisted of his own graces. 

 His hearers could not cough or look aside from him without loss. He com- 

 manded where he spoke, and had his judges angry and pleased at his devo- 

 tion: no man had their affections more in his power; the fear of every man 

 that heard him was, lest he should make an end." Mr. Loudon, when 

 treating on the study of plants, observes, that " This wonderful philosopher 

 explored and developed the true foundations of human knowledge, with a 

 sagacity and penetration unparalleled in the history of mankind." What 

 Clement VIII. applied to the eight books of Hooker's Ecclesiastical Polity, 

 may well apply to the writings of Bacon : " there is no learning that this 

 man hath not searched into. His books will get reverence by age, for there 

 is in them such seeds of eternity, that they will continue till the last fire shall 

 devour all learning." Monsieur Thomas, in his Eulogy of Descartes, says, 

 " Bacon explored every path of human knowledge, he sat in judgment on 

 past ages, and anticipated those that were to come." The reader will be 

 gratified by inspecting the second volume of Mr. Malone's publication of 

 Aubrey's Letters, in the Bodleiaa Library, as well as the richly decorated 

 and entertaining Beauties of England and Wales, and Pennant's Tour from 

 Chester to London, for some curious notices of the ancient mansion, garden, 

 and orchard, at Gorhambury. 



