FOR 
end 1 n eee ae oS - hence the degree of M.D. 
His health, however, began to decline; and the death 
© 
rr ° 
his other complaints the commencement of the 
year 1798, his cafe became defperate ; and before the clofe 
of this year, viz e ecember, his life ter 
ated at the age of Cg and fome months. Mr 
Forfter’s difpofition was, unfortunately for oad happinefs 
and reputation, extremely irritable ‘and litigious; aid his 
want of prudence involved me in perpetual difficulties. 
The Ede charafter giv y the celebrated 
sel of Halle, is ee by le partiality of a 
«Eo a gees of books in all braaches be 
aah an uncom 
ae well. ‘knew ce 
phy, both 
ras ac- 
3 
m to be ith, 
und of praétical cservatons, of whic 
: avail himf felf. Sie m1 
‘only has not even a dif- 
his aflertion is ann in the m 
s * Obfervations — 
~ FOR 
rious literary and a attainments. 
mentioned ales accompan 
We have rahe ay. 
ied his one in the cir 
n t re obe ; me on leaving England, ne 
their cei: he wifhed to fet i z 
tle at Pas. ter a tem- 
porary refidence in that city, he removed, in ne year 1779, 
to Caffel, and undertook the office of profeffor on) natural 
hiftory in the need 2 tha t place. aes ace. 
cepted the offer of a u 
sae ope a Forker 
were “fruftrated. "His ae mind, him to 
wifh for ufeful e sa aa and the et Niece which he 
had acquired induced the rat 4 Mentz to 
prefident of the ein 6 t city. 
awnings of the French revelation, s M. Po 
; rou 
VWorld.”? He this baok it b faid that no traveller med themfelves into a convention, to repair to. Paris, 
ever gathered fe rich a foe on his tour. What n and to requeft that they might be united to the French re- 
of any education can read and ftudy ae work, which is public. But he was thus employed, the city of 
a. nits kind, without difco ering in it that Mentz was befieged and taken by the Pruffian troops. 
Speci inftruétive and pleafing 3 information ae ch’ moft this difaft {t his whole property, and his numerous 
inte athe man, as fuch? The eee which. The d which fell into the hands of the prince of Pruffia. 
e- 
Forfter took iv his literary com io, ey con- 
{cientious accuracy in hiftorical cee ifitions, are belt 
evinced by his ** Hiftory of Voyages and Difcoveries in the 
North,” and ae a his excellent ar rheological differt- 
ir «¢ On the sad Ancients.”? Refearches se 
employment, in which he 
eee affifted by his nade acquaintance with the claffie, 
oe nee a ase pa for the fublime in natural noe 
and a at ews’ rather than detail. His 
ci  outhon therefore e, was Buffon, who om he ufed S 
Pao as a pattern of ftyle, efpecially i in his Pago 
de Ja e, his defcripti ion of the haorfe, camel, 
had € enjo er the friendfhip of that diftinguifhed  aturalift 
and he likewife kept up an uninterrupted epiftolary i inter- 
any parti- 
e i ion, 
mankind. mora 
was attraGted es irrefiltible force ee ae ieee was one. 
good, or excellent. reat charaGers infpired him with an 
efteem, which he fometimes expre effied with paea ie ar- 
s other works, befides thofe a sega are 
chiefly compilations and tranflations. ommuni- 
cated feveral pete : the eptlee Society, the Ac 
Sciences at Stoc , the Imperial Academy of Sciences 
_at Peterfburgh, and ee learned oo ee =p beer 
in their refpeCtive ‘TranfaCtions and Mem log. 
TER, GEORGE, fon of the pre cline was bor at 
moran in 2 1754 and accompanied his father to England, 
n he about 12 years of age. A 
of gi he fied § or fome time, he a red a perfe 
ef the Eng ongué; and poffe a retentive memot 
and fertile tag, ie diftinguifhed himfelf by his va- 
ademy of b 
ards experienced, nim a refolution of. sis 
Hindoofta an oe “Thi i 3 for whieh he acquired the n cef. 
{ary preparation, by ftudying the oriental languages : 
the chagrin venga by his Salone aggravating a 
fcorbuti tic affection, whic e had contraé¢ted during his 
e at Paris, February. 13th, en 
a His works oyage round th 
his Aa Maye fy? s Sloop Refolution, commanded by 
a ames Cook, during the Years 1772, 3, 4, and s,°? 
ares 1777, 3 vols. 4to i k was tranflated b 
himfelf and his father into German, aa pub = kb ae 
in 40. 1778- 1780. * Re oM s Re- 
mar. 
He 
concern a with pro ofeffor SU eicies of 
Gone, | in aie publication of the Gottingen Magazine ; 
he alfo wrote-fome papers in the Tranfa@ions of the Aca- 
demy of Sciences at Uplal ; ;“ i had ala 
‘¢ Charaéteres generum Plantarum, &c.’”? of his father 
and was employed b aor Pala, nd others, in the’ 
continuation of Martini’s Dictionary a re ural Hiftory, - 
ife by Pougens. Gen. 
iog. 
s Bay, in Geography, a veg: the South - 
Atlantic. ess on the c ae of Sandwich Lae itees 
South Thule and cape Bri 
ra bay in oe 8 ftrait, Hudfon’s 
a fo named by Lin 
little before his death, and publithed by his fod Gk in te 
Ree Plantarum, in honour of the celebrated na- 
ralifts, John Reinhold Forfter, 
Forfler3 fee thofe articles. Linn Su pl. 59. 
A&. Nov. Upfal. v. 3.184. Schreb. ce Willd: Sp. Pl. v.4. 
147. Juff. 423. Swartz in Schrad. Journ. - 1799: Bite 2. 
and in Sims and Kon. Ann. of Bot. v. 1. t. 6. 
lachne; Forft. Gen. t. 58, rane Earee 62. Schreb, 672: se 
Forsrer’s ee 
