Dr. Sherard. 145 
proved quite harmlefs. How foon after 
this time he was engaged in any public 
employment, I cannot determine : but, in 
1702, he was one of the commiflxoners for 
fick and wounded fea men at Port/mouth 
and, I believe, was foon after appointed 
conful at Smyrna ^ a department, which, it 
is probable, his defire of inveftigating the 
plants of the Eaft had no fmall fliare in 
inducing him to accept. But Sherard's 
knowledge and tafte was not confined to 
the ftudy of botany. Mr. Martyn in- 
forms us, that, " in 1705, with Antonio 
PiCENiNi, he vifited the feven churches of 
AJia. In 1709 and 1716, he tranfcribed 
the Monument a Tela, and caufed the Sigean 
infcription to be copied and fent to E?2g^ 
land *y and the learned Dr. Chishull de- 
dicates his account of it to him." He alfo 
fent an account of the ifland raifed near 
Santorini, in the Archipelago^ on the r2th 
of May, 1707; which was printed in the 
Philofopbical T^ranfaBions ^ N° 3 1 4. Vol. xxii» 
p. 67. 
During his refidence at Smyrna^ he had 
a country houfe at a place called Sedekio. 
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