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FROM CAFFA, 
chap- volent Host, lie could not have lived to make 
— ' this grateful acknowledgment. Having pre- 
scribed for him, the worthy Professor admini- 
stered every medicine with his own hands ; 
carefully guarded his diet ; and, after nursing 
him as his own son, at last restored him to 
health. When he recovered, the same exemplary 
friend, from his own collection, provided him 
with drawings, charts, maps, books, antiquities, 
minerals, and whatsoever else might serve to 
gratify his curiosity, or to promote the object 
of his travels ; accompanying him upon the 
most wearisome excursions, in search, not 
only of the insects and plants of the country, 
but also of every document likely to illustrate 
either its antient or its modern history 1 . The 
declining years of this celebrated man have 
been embittered by a variety of unmerited 
affliction : this he has borne even with Stoical 
philosophy. Splendid as his residence appeared. 
(1) If ei tiler he or his family should ever cast their eyes upon these 
pages, they will here find the only testimony of gratitude we have been 
able to render for such unexampled benevolence. His kindness has 
indeed been ill requited ; the political differences between England and 
Russia, together with other untoward circumstances, have put it out of 
our power to fulfil even the few commissions with which he honoured us, 
when we parted. The profile^ of him, engraved as a Vignette to this 
Chapter, was taken from the life by the author : as it offers a most 
striking resemblance of his features, it is hoped its introduction will not 
be deemed a superfluous addition to the number of engravings. 
