XXIV INTRODUCTJON. 



and oiie^ was prepared but never published in 

 1846.] 



The book was well received, and reviewed favour- 

 ably by the literary journals of the day, so that its 

 publication brought its author into notice, and 

 Leguat became acquainted with Baron Haller^ and 

 other scientists of that day ; among others who thus 

 came to know him was Dr. Sloane, the secretary of 

 the Royal Society. The adventurous traveller 

 remained in exile in England, and, from a contem- 

 porary notice in the Blhliotheque Britannique,^ it 

 appears that he attained the great age of ninety-six 

 years before he died at or near London in September 

 1735. 



According to M. Eyries,^ in the Biographie 

 UniverseUe, the narrative of Leguat's voyage was 



1 " One of these adveutufers (Huguenots or I'ei'ugee Protestants 

 of France), M. Leguat, has left a narrative of their sojourn on the 

 island, which, after relieving of its excessive prolixity, I purpose 

 publishing under a separate form." (England''s Colonicd Ernpire, 

 vol. i, by C. Pridham, 1846.) 



^ Baron Albert de Haller, a well-known anatomist, botanist, 

 and almost universal genius, was born at Berne, 1708, came to 

 England in 1727, so he could only have known Leguat when the 

 latter was in his extreme old age, nearly a nonagenarian. 



^ JBibliotheqne Britannique, ou Histoire des Ouvrages des savcms 

 de la Grande Bretagne -pour les mois de Juillet, Aout et Septemhve, 

 1735, tome v. Under heading " Nouvelles Litteraires": — "Mr. 

 Leguat est mort ici au commencement du mois de Septembre, 

 age de uonante & six ans & aint conserve jusqu'a la fin une grande 

 liberty de corps d'esprit, C'est le meme qui publia en 1706, 

 la Relation d'un Voyage, dont voici le titre " 



4 M. Jean Baptiste Benoit Eyries, author of the Abrege des 

 Voyages Modernes. See Biographie UniverseUe, Ancienne et 

 Mndf'rnc, tnme xiii. Paris, 1819. 



