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and herb shop in Covent- garden, and died at the age of 

 eighty-six, a few years ago, appears to have been very much 

 esteemed. His family at Croydon possess his portrait, and 

 there is another preserved by the Horticultural Society. He 

 married for his second wife a sister of the intrepid traveller 

 Mungo Park. Mr. Dickson, when searching for plants in 

 the Hebrides, in 1789, was accompanied by him. Hand- 

 some mention is made of Mr. Dickson in the Life of Mungo 

 Park, prefixed to the " Journal of a Mission to the Interior 

 of Africa." In the above life, the friendly and generous 

 assistance which Sir Joseph Banks shewed both to Mr. 

 Dickson, and to Mungo Park, is very pleasingly record- 

 ed. A memoir of Mr. Dickson is given in the 5th vol. 

 of the Hort. Transactions. He published, Fasciculus Plan- 

 tarum Cryptog. Brit. 4 parts 4to. 1785-1801. 



RICHARD PAYNE KNIGHT, Esq. author of The Landscape, 

 a didactic poem, 4to. 1794. A second edition, with a pre- 

 face, appeared in 4to. in 1795. This poem is the only pro- 

 duction of Mr. Knight, on the subject of landscape scenery, 

 except his occasional allusions thereto, in his Analytical En- 

 quiry into the Principles of Taste, the second edition of 

 which appeared in 8vo. in 1805. This latter work embraces 

 a variety of subjects, and contains many energetic pages, 

 particularly those on Homer, and on the English drama. 

 His philosophical survey of human life " in its last stages," 

 (at p. 461), and where he alludes to " the hooks and links 

 which hold the affections of age," is worthy of all praise ; it 

 is deep, solemn, and affecting. The other publications of 

 this gentleman are enumerated in Dr. Watts's Bibl. Brit. 

 Mr. Knight, in his Landscape, after invoking the genius of 

 Virgil, in reference to his 



O'qui me gd'tdis in vaUibus Hcemi 



Sistat, et ingenti ramorum protegat unbra, 



thus proceeds, after severely censuring Mr. Browne, who 



