THE MAGAZINE 



OF 



NATURAL HISTORY. 



JANUARY, 1830. 



Art. L Some Account of the Life, Genius, and Personal Habits 

 of the late Thomas Bewick, the celebrated Artist and Engraver on 

 Wood. By his Friend John F. M. Dovaston, Esq. A.M., of 

 Westfelton, near Shrewsbury. 



{Continued from Vol. IL 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 righte nought. 

 Eke therto was he righte a mery man, 

 And after souper playen he began. 

 And spake of mirthe amonges other thinges," &c 



Chaucer, his Hoste, 



Sir, 

 I PASS on to another personal interview, which took place on 

 my return from a very long and laborious tour through the 

 Hebrides, Highlands, and the greater part of Scotland, in 

 company with the same friend and fellow-traveller, John E. 

 Bowman, Esq., F.L.S., in the summer of 1825. It was mid- 

 night when we arrived in Newcastle 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 house, and it was his birthday ( 1 2th 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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