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 278 BRITISH PHYSICIANS. sition and engaging manners. The friendship and admiration of Mrs. Barbauld dedicated to her young friend several of the poems which she was then pubHshing. The exquisite lines ad- dressed " to Miss R. when attending her mother at Buxton," exhibit the character and merits of the present Mrs. Parry. Her mother, the daughter of Dr. Taylor, well known as a Hebrew scholar, by his numerous writings, and from a portrait by Houbraken, had been celebrated by the same muse. Shortly after his marriage, Dr. Parry proceeded to the continent ; and having visited Holland, Inlanders, and France, took up his final residence at Bath, in November, 1779 ; and scarcely quitted that city for a day during the remainder of his useful and valuable life. It has been remarked, that within a short period after his settlement at Bath, Dr. Parry assumed a high and commanding station, professional as well as social. He became much distinguished by his extensive and enlightened practice, by the hu- manity of his character, and by the publication of numerous medical writings. The profession of me- dicine, which, at the early age of eighteen, he had adopted from choice, he pursued through the maturity and fulness of years, with a fondness and ardour which ensured superiority and success. Few individuals have, indeed, been more zealously devoted to this pursuit, or have engaged in it with a more intense desire of improving the science ; or of augmenting its power as an instrument of practical benefit to mankind. Few individuals have been more incessantly occupied in its duties, or