GARDEN. 
when to my furprife it broke off fhort into three or four 
arid juit in the fame manner as the glafs fnake does when 
From this I judged it was not of the eel kind, 
Though I 
Sloe fkin and mufcles are remarkably tou ke 
never yet have been able to know ocularly whether they 
perfect ftate if thefe were only Jarve, but we pofitively have 
no animal that refembles them.’?-—Linnazus found, as he 
thought, fo great a peculiarity in the organs o 
tion in this animal, it ing apparently both gills 
and lungs, that he was induced ablifh a new orde 
re) mpbi to receive it, vlan he aor rien 
fee the laft leaf of the rift vol. Sy 
s new order was to follow ne Ser pentes in. 39 snot 
395. A ieee on the Siren ease tina is alfo to be 
found in Ameen. Acad. v. 7. 311. t. 5: and Ellis Gre a 
paper on the fubject, which appears in he Philofophical 
Tranfactions, v. 56. 189. t.g. Among the moft curious 
difcovery was a letter written to Dr. 
there were occa- 
ey interruptions in this feries, where Hs had placed ae 
rs for certain produtions, which he knew muf? exift, b 
bad not yet difcovered, and that the Siren ene filled 
e of thefe vacant numbers!” is prefumption, fo 
an from his own patient and eae — of 
ale fo difgufted Dr. Garden, jae he immediately de- 
further intercourfe with fi 
ut a hum 
own aw with the ardour of fir John Hill. The 
ae i sal ee its pretenfions to = anew — ' 
even a genus, and reduced it to Murena, where it no 
ftands i in Enel 8 eiton of the Sellen, v Ye Ie 1136, by ae 
name of 
Ina ees aed. Ma ay, 1770, Dr. Garden gave Linnzus 
an account of what is called 1 in South Carolina the Potatoe 
ees, Or eve 
tacke reat numbers of thefe vermin at once, which im- 
mediately overrun all parts of the body, not only wounding 
the fkin and inferting their poifon, but introducing them- 
felves under the cuticle, and occafioning itching that foon 
becomes intolerable, with fubfequent inflammation and 
letters Dr.Garden finds t fault ch the writer laft 
named, whofe whole work, he Cn «¢ but efpecially the ad 
volume, is.fo incomplete, and abounds with fuch grofs 
called by Catefby the Chigo, or Chigger 
be 
errors, that it would be no {mall tafk to amend and complete ; 
it; and that he wiles picematy it without indignation an 
difgutt at feeing th eautiful works of the Creator fo 
aia defaced re spclree: and fo ill id cae 
The above Potatoe Loufe proved the Agarus Batatas, 
ylt. Nat. v. 1. 1026.— cei o ithe “ Garden 
fent an intelligent negro 7 ae to and rovi- 
dence for the purpofe of pie a eee IO and 
efpecially fifh, this being, as we prefum man aa 
mentioned who excelled in their preparation, His har 
however, on this occafion, was much lefs abundant oe 
might have been expected, in confequence of a ftorm in his 
voyage back, which fo terrified him, that he forgot all necef- 
fary attention to his colleGtion, in fears for his own life. 
da arrived in tolerable order were fent to Linnzus, and 
g them were feveral new or curious fifhes and infects. 
1 be “Taf letter of Dr. Garden to Linnzus in our poffeffion is 
te 1773, a 
FrnGbification ¢ 3 
correfpondence, and finally obliged him, as ve joi 
the loyaliits, to quit that country and take refuge in Taope: 
He lett a fon behind him, but was accompanied to England 
y his wife and two daughters. We are not informed of 
the precife time of his arrival in England, but it appears, 
from the records of the Royal > that, though elected 
a fellow of that fociety June 10, 1773, he was not admitted 
till May 15, 1782, the et ae oS his firft le 
tunity of attending in o London 
where he refided till hist er an ieapeed April 15, 
1791, in the 62d year of his age. e had, in confequence of 
the récommendation of Linnzus, been eleéted a member of 
the aati Academy of Upfal in 1761. 
arden had for the a egal i his life oe 
un me a delicate flate of afflicted w 
chan carpe ought his vee é America, ae 
deterre any excurfions by fea his abode 
there, tho oiek ‘he 7 wifhed te examine ig es me of the 
Bahama iflands in particular. His raétice as a phyfician, 
though very prensa was frequently interrupted by the 
ftate of his own health, and he was obliged to indulge’in the 
relaxation afforded by a country-houfe and garden, where he 
delighted to cultivate in luxuriance the choiceft plants of 
entwined - 
s, and a benev rep ng countenance. e 
have elfewhere sage that * few chara€ters could be more 
ivate, nor were eae ong cheerful. 
nefs ever more ha aly. combined, Tic 
loyalift, free from party bigotry. In eer eae et he 
fought only truth and nature, for their own fakes, ever aa 
rope wherever it packie es — and 
lis, is 
ARDEN, 2 port 
of ornamental effe a. 
It is ee ae many different cane nces, that the 
introduction of gardens almoft immediat ey ee that 
of the art of building houfes, and, of courfe, became the 
natural 
