APPENDIX (o) TO VOLUME I.

" you mite will be agreeable and entertaining to me. Has George Con way put up
"a sign yet; or John Enecly* left off drinking drams; or Tom Allen got a
"new wig? But I leave to your own choice what to write.—"While Oliver
" Goldsmith lives, know you have a friend !

"P.S. Give my sincere regards (not compliments, do you mind) to your
" agreeable family, and give my service to my mother if you see her; for, as you
" express it in Ireland, I have a sneaking kindness for her still.

" Direct to me,------, Student in Physic, in Edinburgh."

II. TO THE REV. MR. OONTARINE.

The first letter to the reverend Mr. Contarine mentioned in the text
(p. 51) is dated 8th May, 1753, and runs thus :

"Mr DEAR UNQIE,

'(In your letter (the only one I received from Ivilmore), you call
"me the philosopher who carries all his goods about him. Yet how can Huch
" a character fit me, who have left behind in Ireland every thing I think
"worth possessing; friends that I loved, and a society that pleased while it
"instructed? Who but must regret the loss of such enjoyments? Who but
'' must regret his absence from Kilmore, that ever knew it as I. did ? Hero, as
" recluse as the Turkish Spy at Paris, I am almost unknown to every body, except
" some few who attend the professors of physic as I do,

" Apropos, I shall give you the professors' names, and, as far as occurs to me,
" their characters ; and first, as most deserving, Mr. Munro, professor of Anatomy j
'' this man has brought the science he teaches to as much perfection as it is capable
"of; and not content with barely teaching anatomy, he laiinehest oitt into all the
"branches of physic, when all his remarks are new and useful. 'Tis ho, I may
'' venture to say, that draws hither such a number of students from most parts of the
" world, even from Russia. He ia not only a skilful physician, but an able orator,
" and delivers things in their nature obscure in so easy a manner, that the most
"unlearned may understand him. Plume, professor of Chemistry, understands
"Ms business well, but delivers himself so ill, that he is but little regarded.
'' Alston, professor of Materia Medica, speaks much, but little to the purpose.
" The professors of Theory and Practice (of physic) say nothing but what we may
"find in books laid before us; and speak that in so drowsy and heavy a manner,
"that their hearers are not many degrees in a better state than their patients.

" You see then, dear sir, that Munro is the only great man among them.; so that
"I intend to hear him another winter, and go then to hear Albums, the great
"professor at Leyden. I read (with satisfaction) a science the most pleasing in
"nature, so that my labours are but a relaxation, and, I may truly say, the only
" thing here that gives me pleasure. How I enjoy the pleasing hope of returning
"with skill, and to find my friends stand in no need of my assistance I How

* Mr. Prior prints the name as John Biiioly (i. MS); and lot me hero withdraw the objec-
tion which I made in a former note (ante, GO), and admit that the discrepancies in this lotto1
as ordinarily printed are much loss grave than I had at first supposed—on the whole indued
are very immaterial.pany. An