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OF Bamfylde Moore Carew.

R Bamfylde Moore Carew. was the son of a clergyman near Tiverton in Devonshire, and born in 1693. He was tall and Majestic his limbs strong and well proportioned, his features regular, and his countenance open and ingenuous, bearing the resemblance of a good-natured mind. At twelve years old he was put to Tiverton school, where he soon got a considerable knowledge of the Latin and Greek tongues so as to be fitted for the university, that in due time he might make a figure in the church, for which his father designed him; but here a new exercise engaged his attention, namely that of hunting, in which he soon made a prodigious progress. The Tiverton scholars had command of