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Europe and the United States, in his previous employ- 
ments, and his reputation as a chemist and mineralo- 
gist, would probably have increased in a corresponding 
ratio with theirs. But it may fairly be inferred from 
what we now know of his traits of character, that he 
was one of those who believed in doing their duty in 
that state of life in which it pleases the Almighty to 
place them, and if so, he naturally inferred that duty 
in his own case, was materially modified by the posses- 
sion of a large fortune, which, properly employed, 
might enable him to be more widely useful to his fel- 
low-citizens and fellow-men, than he could be even if 
enrolled with the Elie de Beaumonts of Europe or 
the most distinguished chemists and mineralogists of 
America. 
The change in the views of Mr. Seybert as to the 
life most proper for him in the future, was probably 
adopted soon after the death of his father, and a few 
weeks previous to his visit to England, in the summer 
of 1825, referred to in a previous page. We had the 
good fortune to have as traveling companions in this 
visit, that pure and excellent man and-Christian g 
en- 
tleman, Mr. Nathaniel Chauncey, of Philadelphia, and 
Mr. Jaquelin Ambler, of Virginia, a member of one of 
the old and honored families of that State, in its better 
days. 
We harmonized wonderfully in our views as to the 
places and objects to be visited by us; our scientist, 
Mr. Seybert, preferring, like the rest of us, a view of 
