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Mr. Lorrain Smith, can be better informed, 

 or give so correct an account of every thing 

 that relates to this inimitable sportsman, I 

 have inserted, verbatim, a few anecdotes 

 which my friend has been so kind as to send 

 me, thinking they may be interesting to a 

 young beginner. — He commences his letter 

 by informing me, that he spent twenty 

 years of the most pleasing apprenticeship 

 to the late Mr. M. ; whom he speaks of as 

 the " Primate of Science," and declares his 

 equal never was, and he is inclined to think 

 never will be. 



" The life of Mr. Meynell was spent in 

 contemplating the characters of all and 

 every animal and thing that came under his 

 observation: his first object was to ascer- 

 tain the probable cause that produced the 

 various effects in man, animals, &c. such as 

 perfection, defects, and propensities ; hence 

 he had an analysis of most things which he 

 had to encounter. His perception was so 



