himself impofed upon, "I had much rather that my favours hould fall upon many undeferving objects, than that one truly deferving fhould escape my notice." From the extenfiveness of his daily employments in London and its neighbourhood, to which muft be added, the variety of his medical, philofophical, literary, and friendly correfpondence, it may be a matter of furprife to many, how he could acquit himself of the number of his engagements; yet he understood fo well the value of a moment, and the influence of order in the management of time, that he could generally fettle his moft interefting concerns every evening, before he retired to reft. His thoughts were fo perfectly digefted, his penetration was fo quick, and his hand was fo rapid in its obedience to the dictates of his mind, that what might have been to many able men a fcene of inquietude, not to fay of confufion, was, in his hands, eafy and familiar. In cafes of moment he was no procraftinator.

In the practice of a phyfician, it is a happiness to himfelf, and certainly a much greater to his patients, if he is in poffeffion of that native acumen or fagacioufnefs of mind, which, from the fuperior importance of his art, ought to have a high place in the fcale of character, could it be clearly afcertained.-In every other art or science it may be eafily diftinguifhed by men of moderate abilities; but in medicine, its effects not being fo obvious, popular impreffion, or private influence, mut neceffarily be accepted as fecurity for its existence. It has fo little dependance upon me

dical education, and profeffional employment, that a man may have enjoyed all the advantages of the one, and all the emoluments of the other, yet neither he nor his patients may have felt the leaft degree of its influence.-Education and employment are ordinary things: but this alone is the life of medical genius, and is truly extraordinary; it operates by quick difcrimination in dubious cafes; it throws a clear light upon appa rent difficulties; it fixes the judg ment determinately upon the right object, and is practically illuftrat ed by happy and unexpected events. It was this fpecies of pe netration that principally diftinguifhed Dr. Fothergill as a medical man.

There was another advantage, of no fmall moment, which his patients derived from his attend ance; he knew how to unite the kindness of friendship with his profeffional duties; and could enter into thofe retreats of anxiety, from which flow an infinitude of bodily diftreffes, with an eye clear. ly difcerning, yet incurious and benign.-A religious fenfibility of fpirit. difpofed him to draw near the deep fprings of affliction, and diffufe the oil of peace over the troubled waters. There was a difcretion in his fympathy, that attached the confidence of his pa tients to an uncommon degree; and of what importance fuch an acquifition must be in the courfe of an extenfive practice, I leave to the judgment of every skilful practitioner.

A lady of my acquaintance, occafionally expreffing her high regard for the Doctor, and the fatisfaction the received from his attendance

attendance upon her on many occafions, made ufe of the following pathetic language." He was indeed my warm friend and advifer in my distress, as well as my phyfician. He was, under Providence, the preferver of my health, and the restorer of my peace in the feverest conflicts of my life." [Dr. Hird proceeds to speak of him as an encourager of fcience, as a patron of men of genius, and as a generous promoter of, and contributor to charities and works of public utility and convenience: in fpeaking of Dr. Fothergill under this last head, he gives an account of his laudable inftitution of the Foundling Hofpital at Ackworth. The conclufion is as follows.]

The perfon of Dr. Fothergill was of a delicate, rather of an extenuated make: his features were all character; his eye had a peculiar brilliancy of expreffion, yet it was not easy fo to mark the leading trait, as to difengage it from the united whole. He was remarkably active and alert, and, with a few exceptions, enjoyed a general good state of health.

He had a peculiarity of addrefs and manner, refulting from perfon, education, and principle; but it was fo perfectly accompanied by the most engaging attentions, that he was the genuine polite man above all forms of breeding. I knew him well, and I never knew a man who left fuch pleafing impreffions on the minds of his patients.

His drefs was remarkably neat, plain and decent, peculiarly becoming himself; a perfect tranfcript of the order, and, I may

add, the neatness of his mind. He thought it unworthy a man of fenfe, and inconfiftent with his character, to fuffer himself to be led by the whim of fashion, and become the flave of its caprices. But this impreffion upon his understanding was much strengthened by his firm attachment to his principles as a quaker, which led to that decent plainnefs and modefty in drefs, which may be prefumed to be one at least amongst the external evidences of a spirit elevated in its views above all tranfient and fublunary things.

At his meals he was remarkably temperate; in the opinion of fome, rather too abftemious, eating fparingly, but with a good relifli, and rarely exceeding two glailes of wine at dinner or fupper; yet by this uniform and fteady temperance, he preferved his mind 'vigorous and active, and his conftitution equal to all his engagements.

His ideas of retreat from bufinefs were marked by a degree of dignity perfectly correfpondent with the reft of his character. "I wifh, faid he, as far as I ought to wifh, to withdraw myself from my profeffional labours in full poffeffion of my faculties, and, I may add, of my reputation; for I well know, from many an humiliating inftance, how much the infirmities of age, or paralytic debility, to which we are all of us alike expofed, may affect the remembrance of our beft qualities."--He wifhed to retire with the refpect, rather than the compaffion, of his friends.-It has pleafed Providence to remove him. from fociety, after a few weeks'. painful indifpofition, in the vigour

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of his faculties, and in the luftre of his reputation, having clofed a life of ufefulness and honour, in the 69th year of his age, with expreffions of a well-grounded affurance of an happy immortality. In the language of his own eulogium on the memory of his friend Dr. Ruffell, I fhall conclude this imperfect tribute to the memory of my affectionate, fteady, and I may add, my partial friend, Dr. Fothergill;" animated by "his example, let us purfue the "arduous track of public virtue; "and having, like him, fupport"ed the dignity of our profef"fion, by dealing with a li"beral hand to all the bleffings "of health, to the utmost of our "abilities, and done honour to our fpecies, by the conftant "exercife of uprightnefs, can"dour and benignity, may we "clofe the fcene in full poffef"fion of all that deferves the name "of human felicity."

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ferent parties, which were pro perly pofted, fo that the reft might proceed without any danger of an attack. We moreover placed centinels at a confiderable distance to reconnoitre the paths used by the Indians, who poffeffed them felves of thofe parts from which we had moft to fear. With thefe precautions the crews marched in two bodies, who adored the holy crofs upon difembarking, and when at the top of the mountain formed a square, the centre of which became a chapel. Here the holy crofs was again raifed, mafs celebrated with a fermon, and poffeffion taken, with all the requifites enjoined by our inftruc tions. We also fired both our mufquetry and cannon, which na turally made the Indians fuppofe we were irrefiftible. After they had recovered their fright however, and found that we had done them no harm, they vifited us again, and probably to examine more nearly what had occafioned the tremendous noife which they had never heard before. As we thus took poffeffion on the day when holy mother church celebrates the feftival of the most holy Trinity, we named the port accordingly.

The following days were taken up in procuring wood and water, whilft the fchooner was careened. We likewife cut fome mafts for

her.

We could not but particularly attend to all the actions of the Indians, their manner of living, habitations, garments, food, government, laws, language, and arms, as alfo their hunting and fisheries. The diftruft indeed which we naturally entertained of thefe barbarians, made us endea

vour to get as great an infight into all these as poffible, yet we never obferved any thing contrary to the moft perfect friendship and confidence which they feemed to repofe in us. I may add, that their intercourfe with us was not only kind but affectionate.

Their houses were fquare, and built with large beams, the roofs being no higher than the furface of the ground, for the doors to which they make ufe of a circular hole, just large enough for their bodies to pafs through. The

floors of thefe huts are perfectly smooth and clean, with a fquare hole two feet deep in the centre, in which they make their fire, and round which they are continually warming themselves, on account of the great cold. Such habitations alfo fecure them, when not employed out of doors, from the wind and noxious animals.

The men however do not wear any covering, except the cold is intenfe, when indeed they put upon their shoulders the fkins of fea-wolves, otters, deer, or other animals many of them alfo have round their heads fweet-fmelling herbs. They likewife wear their hair either dishevelled over their fhoulders, or otherwife en caf

tanna.

In the flaps of their ears they have rings like thofe at the end of a mufket.

They bind their loins and legs quite down to the ankles, very closely with ftrips of hide or thread.

They paint their face, and greater part of their body, regularly either with a black or blue colour.

Their arms are covered with

circles of fmall points in the fame manner that common people in Spain often paint ships and anchors.

The women cover the tops of their heads with an ornament like the creft of a helmet, and wear their hair in two treffes, in which they fick many fweet-smelling herbs. They alfo ufe the fame rings in their caps (which are of bone) as the men are before defcribed to do, and cover their bodies with the fame skins, befides which they more decently wear an apron of the fame kind, about a foot wide, with fome threads formed into a fringe. They likewife bind their legs in the fame manner with the men.

The underlip of those women is fwelled out into three fafcias, or rifings, two of which iffue from the corners of the mouth to the lowest part of the beard, and the third from the highest point, and middle of that point to the lower, like the others, leaving between each a space of clear flesh, which is much larger in the young than in the older women, whofe faces are generally covered with punctures, fo as to be totally dif figured.

On their necks they wear various fruits, instead of beads; some of these ornaments alfo confist of the bones of animals, or fhells from the fea-coaft.

This tribe of Indians is governed by a ruler, who directs where they fhall go both to hunt and fifl for what the community stands in need of. We also obferved that one of these Indians always examined carefully the fea-fhore, when we went to our fhips on the clofe of twilight, the occafion of C13

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which probably was to take care that all their people should return fafe to their habitations about that time.

It should feem that the authority of this ruler is confined to a particular village of thefe habitations, together with fuch a diftrict of country as may be fuppofed to belong to the inhabitants of fuch a community, who fometimes are at war with other villages, against whom they appeared to ask our affiftance, making us figns for that purpose. There are however many other villages which are friendly to each other, if not to thefe Indians; for on our first arrival more than 300 came down in different parties, with their women and children, who were not indeed permitted to enter the village of our Indians. Whilft this fort of intercourse continued between us, we observed an infant who could fcarcely be a year old, fhooting arrows from a bow proportioned to his fize and ftrength, and who hit one's hand at two or three yards distance, if it was held up for a mark.

We never obferved that these Indians had any idols, or made facrifices: but as we found out that they had a plurality of wives, or women, at leaft, we inferred, with good reafon, that they were perfect athiefs.

Upon the death of one of thefe Indians they raised a fort of funeral cry, and afterwards burned the body within the houfe of their ruler; but from this we could not pronounce they were idolators, because the cry of lamentation might proceed from affliction, and the body might have been burnt, that the corpfe fhould not be ex

pofed to wild beafts; or perhaps this might have been done to avoid the ftench of the deceased, when putrefaction might com mence,

We were not able to understand one of their regulations, as they permitted our people to enter all their houfes, except that of their ruler; and yet when we had broken through this etiquette, we could not obferve any thing dif ferent between the palace, and the other huts.

It was impoffible for us to un derftand their language, for which reafon we had no intercourfe but by figns, and therefore both par ties often continued in a total ignorance of each other's meaning: we obferved however that they pronounced our words with great eafe.

Their arms are chiefly arrows pointed with flint, and fome of them with copper or iron, which we understood were procured from the N. and one of them was thus marked C Thefe arrows are carried in quivers of wood or bone, and hang from their wriß or neck.

But what they chiefly value is iron, and particularly knives or hoops of old barrels; they alfo readily barter for bugles; whilft they rejected both provifions or any article of drefs. They pretended however that they fometimes approved the former, in or der to procure our esteem; but foon after they had accepted any fort of meat, we obferved that they fet it afide, as of no value. At laft indeed they took kindly to our biscuits, and really eat them.

Amongst thefe Indians there was one who had more familiar