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 HARVEY. 41 observations of strange trees and plants, earths, j &c., and sometimes ran the danger of being lost. I So that, as the gossipping antiquary remarks, " My Lord Ambassador would be really angry with him ; for there was not only danger of thieves, but also of wild beasts." During his absence abroad, the Governors of St. Bartholomew's Hospital allowed liim to delegate his office of physician to Dr. Smyth ; and soon afterwards, in consideration of his professional em- ployment at court, which obliged him to a close attendance upon the person of the king, they ap- pointed Dr. Andrews his assistant in the hospital, continuing, however, the former salary to Har- vey, out of regard for his great merit and signal services. On one of these occasional absences from his professional duties in the metropohs, he accompa- nied the king in a journey to Scotland. It was in 1633 that Claarles went to his northern dominions, attended by the court, for the purpose of holding a parliament, and going again through the ceremony of a coronation. The nobility and gentry of both kingdoms are said to have rivalled each other in expressing all duty and respect to the king, and in showing mutual friendship and regard to each other. No one could have expected, from exterior appearances, the change that was ap- proaching. While the court was occupied in these flattering festivities, so soon to be followed by acts of treacherous duplicity and scenes of tumult and bloodshed, Harvey, whose mind seems never to have been idle, made an excursion to the Bass Bock, in the Frith of Forth, of which he has left