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for his race—with a purity and perseverance never surpassed ; and 
finally, his moral and social character in all the relations of life pre- 
sents a noble example for the imitation of youth and age 
Judge White has presented his subject with the chastened elegance 
and dignity of style and composition which, as a scholar of a high order, 
he never fails to do when he appears as a writer. His fine classical 
eulogy upon the late Dr. Bowditch is still fresh in our recollection—and 
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honor enough for the good old town of Salem, although she can present 
others of no small celebrity among both the living and the dead. 
The eulogium of Judge White upon the late Dr. Bowditch* called 
and warm with affectionate respect for the great man whom it com- 
memorates. Being the production of a townsman and cotemporary, 
It presents graphic sketches of his life and character both in the form- 
thing definite of his wonderful labors. They fill us with astonishment, 
hot to say with self-reproach, when we see how much was done a 
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with the ‘good of old,’ and to have enjoyed the society of their de- 
scendants—a rare privilege. You could therefore better judge, whether 
any new fact, or inferences growing out of investigation now In pro- 
gress in Egypt, and seemed to feel that a flood light would soon 
burst upon us from that quarter. I have for many years enjoyed a 
familiar intimacy with him, and the great advantage of knowing through 
im interesting details in connection with his prospects. A few weeks 
before his death, he placed in my hands papyr! from Thebes, which he 
Phe sid Rite 0: Res cade AEE 
.* Am. Jour., Vol. x . 386. P ; 
t The late Gol. ‘Timothy Pickering, a companion of Washington in the war of 
the Revolution and the first Secretary of State under the constitution during the 
administration of Washington, at Philadelphia 
