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xvi uaded, that it is in the great book of Nature, that we ought to tudy her productions, and form a jut idea of her phœnomena, when I had finihed my medical coure, I took a journey into England, which was immediately followed by another into the Alps, where the different temperatures of a mountainous region preent us with a prodigious variety of objects.

I next viited a part of Aia Minor, where I reided two years, in order that I might examine thoe plants, of which the Greek and Arabian phyicians have left us very imperfect decriptions; and I had the atisfaction of bringing from that country very important collections.

Soon after my return from this lat tour, the National Aembly decreed the equipment of two hips, in order to attempt to recover at leat a part of the wreck of the hips commanded by La Péroue.

It was an honourable ditinction to be of the number of thoe, whoe duty it was to make every poible earch, which could contribute to retore to their country, men who had rendered her uch ervices.

That voyage was, in other repects, very tempting to a naturalit. Countries newly dicovered might be expected to increae our knowledge with new