T O 
ROBERT RAMSAY, M. D* 
FELLOW OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS, 
AND 
PROFESSOR OF NATURAL HISTORY IN THE UNIVER- 
SITY OF EDINBURGH. 
Dear Sir, 
I T H I N K myfelf happy in having an opportunity of 
giving you this mark of the fenfe I have of your 
Heady friendfhip, from its origin, in 1769, to the prefent 
moment. From the beginning, it has proved a regular 
feries of good offices : Y ou never confidered me with the 
jealoufy of a Rival courting the fame Miftrefs ; but, with 
uncommon generality, promoted all my purfuits after 
Dame Nature, whether fhe retired to the depths of the 
Highland Glens, or lurked amidft the intricate groups of 
the ftormy Hebrides. If, in my late expedition, fhe has 
granted me any favors (for fhe proved rather coy) fhe 
humbled me by faying, that I was indebted to you for 
them. So that I find myfelf bound to make public ac~ 
knowlegements of advantages acquired by means of the 
due you gave of arriving at the few I have obtained. 
Not- 
