Hill. 293 
He was well verfed in the botany of this 
country, and delighted in painting the indi- 
genous plants. He was ever beft pleafed 
when employed by fcientific people ; fiHce 
his wifh was always to follow nature, and 
to exhibit on his piece the true chara£ters, 
without the fmalleft deviation for the fake 
of embellifliment. Having early imbibed 
the principles of Linnceus's fyftem, he at- 
tended to the difcrimination of the parts on 
which it was founded, with an accuracy 
that commanded obfervance 3 and while his 
excellence in delineating and painting drew 
admiration, and difFufed a tafte for the 
ftudy of plants, the truth of his pencil in- 
ftruded thofe who beheld it in the prin^ 
ciples of the fcience. 
HILL, 
About the year 1751, Dr. Hill began 
to publifii on the fubjedt of botany. His 
Hiftory of Plants," printed in that year, 
although compiled and tranflated princi- 
pally from LiNNiEUS, was not adapted to 
indigenous botany, nor fufficiently calcu- 
lated to inftrud the ftudent in the ultimate 
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