the fibres of the bark of trees, in order 
to enable himself to go out and collect 
plants: thus putting in practice a branch 
ofthe very trade to which his father had 
proposed to bind him. 
Imagine him, Henry, in this predic¬ 
ament ; scantily supplied with food and 
clothing; uncertain even where to¬ 
morrow’s meal might be found. He 
does not fold his hands and sit down to 
sigh over his sorrows. He was too 
much in earnest in the course he had 
traced out for himself, to be checked 
by the first obstacles he met with; 
nor could 
“ repre« the noble rage, 
In the midst of these depressing cir¬ 
cumstances, he continued his daily re¬ 
searches, and his nightly studies, with 
unremitted ardour. He had long sus¬ 
pected that the botanical theory which 
then prevailed was very incorrect and 
