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ftill more noble and great from the innate mag- 

 nificence, generofity, and goodnefs of his foul. 

 Thoughj by his high offices, his time was taken 

 up by the important affairs of the public, yet 

 his doors were always open to men of learning, 

 fcience, and ingenuity. 



The fécond was the good Sir Hans Sloane, 

 Bart, who employed me, for a great number of 

 years, in drawing miniature figures of animals, 

 &c. after nature, in water-colours, to encreafe 

 his very great colle6lion of fine drawings by 

 other hands ^ which drawings are now all fixed 

 in the Britifli Mufeum, for the help and infor- 

 mation of thofe in future generations, that may 

 be curious or ftudious in natural hiftory. Sir 

 Hans, in the decline of his life, left London, 

 and retired to his manor-houfq at Chelfea, where 

 he refided about fourteen years before he died. 

 After his retirement to Chelfea, he requefted it 

 as a favour to him, (though I embraced his re- 

 queft as an honour done to myfelf) that I would 

 vifit him every week, in order to divert him, for 

 an hour or two, with the common news of the 

 town, and with any thing particular that ftiould 

 happen amongft his- acquaintance of the Royal 



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