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scriptions, have been erected to the memory 

 of Mr. Brown and his works. Such, indeed * 

 is the enthusiasm of his admirers, that 

 many of them, I am persuaded, would not 

 only approve of his system being extended 

 over another quarter of the globe, but 

 would wish, that " the great globe itself" 

 could be new modelled upon that system ; 

 and be made in every part, like one of his 

 dressed places.* Could their wish be car- 



* The late Mr. Owen Cambridge very pleasantly 

 laughed at Brown's vanity, by assigning him a higher 

 sphere for his operations than any of those I have men- 

 tioned. He was vapouring one day, as Mr. Cambridge 

 himself told me, about the change he had made in the 

 face of the country, and his hope of seeing his plans much 

 more generally extended before he died. Mr. Cambridge 

 with great gravity said, " Mr. Brown, I very earnestly 

 wish that I may die before you " why so ?" said Brown 

 with great surprise ; " because," said he," " I should 

 like to see heaven before you had improved it." 

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