Memoir of Samuel George Morton. 159 
No memoranda of his proceedings were made during his resi- 
dence in Paris, but in his resumed journal he remarks that the 
past winter was the happiest of the three-and-twenty that had 
passed over his head, and that he had endeavored so to combine 
study with amusement as not to become weary of either. 
He proceeded to Geneva and made an excursion along the wild 
romantic Glen of the Arve to the Vale of Chamounix. * * * * 
Our traveller, pursuing his journey, visited Milan and Pavia, 
and thence proceeded to Turin. In fine, he spent the summer 
in Visiting various places upon the continent. és 
The following winter was passed at Edinburgh again in sedu- 
lous attendance upon the lectures, and in active business.at the 
Infirmary ; so that, he certainly enjoyed remarkable opportuni- 
ee! 
ba ie . Morton ever looked with distrust upon his early education, 
hich he regarded as incomplete, and therefore unsatisfactory ; 
a hence he was always alive to the need of repairing the faults 
ship into which he was entered by the closing of his student-life. 
{e applied himself therefore to obtain many accomplishments, 
necessary for his purposes, in languages, in belles lettres, and 
oe may be called matters of taste. He, however, still loved 
s history and poetry. His diary contains many selections and 
wh ations, both in prose and verse, from various Italian authors, 
ose language he read with facility. 
ge had acquired a good acquaintance with the Latin and 
ieee tongues, and some knowledge of the Greek. He never 
of leisure or pause from work to allow of his becoming master 
to hae corman language, which was always a subject of regret 
| I cite these memorials of our departed friend and colleague 
® More willingly, inasmuch as they evinee Dr. Morton’s earnest 
lation of the advantages likely to enure to every 
es prudence in early life; for he ge himself to 
© others, loitering by the way, were Happ 
te thraldom of a caida or the trammels of a studentsht 
of it, if he would aspire to a dignified station in the great scholat- 
y to have escaped — 
“yas 
