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MR^ LEDY ARB's 
opened were interefting and iniiruQiive; but they derived their 
principal importance from the proofs which they afforded of the 
ardent fpirit of inquiry, the unwearied attention, the perfevering 
refearch, and the laborious, indefatigable, anxious zeal with which 
their Author purfued the objeft of his Miffion. 
Already informed that his next difpatch would be dated from 
Sennar; that letters of earneft recommendation had been given 
him by the Aga ; that the terms of his paffage liad been fettled ; 
and that the day of his departure was appointed — the Committee 
expedted with impatience the defcription of his journey. Great 
was therefore their concern, and fe\^ere their difappointment, 
when letters from Egypt announced to them the melancholy tid- 
ings of his death. A bilious complaint, the confequence of vex- 
atious delays in the promifed departure of the caravan, had in- 
duced him to try the eife£l: of too powerful a dofe of the acid of 
vitriol; and the fudden uneahnefs and burning pain which fol- 
lowed the incautious draught, impelled him to feek relief from 
the violent action of the ih'ongeft Tartar emetic. A continued 
difcharge of blood difcovered the danger of his fituation, and 
fummoned to his aid the generous friendfliip of the Venetian 
Conful, and the ineffectual fkill of the mofl approved phyficians 
of Cairo 
He 
