THE MAGAZINE 
NATURAL HISTORY. 
JANUARY, 183 
Art. I.” Some Account of the Life, Genius, and Personal Habits 
of the late Thomas Bewich, the celebrated Artist and Engraver on 
Wood. _By his Friend Joun F. M. Dovastron, Esq. A.M., of 
Westfelton, near Shrewsbury. 
( Continued from Vol. LU. p.435.) 
* A semely ‘man our hoste was with alle, 
For to han ben a marshal in an halle. 
A large man he was with eyen stepe, 
A fairer burgeis is ther non in Chepe: 
Bold of his speche, and wise, and wel ytaught, 
And of manhed him lacked righté nought. 
Eke therto was he righte a mery man, 
And after souper playen he began, 
And spake of mirthe amonges other thinges,” &c. 
Cuave ER, his Hoste. 
Sir, 
T pass on to another personal interview, which took place on 
my return from a very long and Jaborious tour through the 
Hebrides, Highlands, and the greater part of Scotland, in 
company with “the same friend and fellow-traveller, John E. 
Bowman, Esq., I'.L.S., in the summer of 1825. It was mid- 
night when we ar rived in Neweastle on Tyne, from Berwick 
on Tweed; and we lay at our old quarters, the Queen’s Head 
Hotel, in Pilgrim Street. By eight in the morning we were 
at his Buse! ada it was his birthday (12th of August), on which 
he attained 72. ‘The family had broke fast; and had sat up for 
us the two last nights, in consequence of a letter I had written 
him from Perth of our intention of returning to England 
through Northumberland, provided he were at home; to 
which I at Edinburgh got a most kind answer, offering us a 
Highland welcome to his open house, hand, and heart. They 
were all in high spirits at again seeing us; and during our 
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