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ANECDOTES.THE late Dr. Sibthorp and Denys Rolle were par nobile fratrum in many particulars of their life, converfation, and peculiarity of habit. They were great botanifts, great travellers, great walkers, and great talkers ; fond of the open air; and living, like the Neapolitans, au jour, toutt la jcurnee. They were both indefatigable in getting and heaping up, and yet in fome cafes they parted with their beft acquisitions without a figh; as when Dr. Sib thorp loft the plant which Linne had called after his name, Sibthorpia Europa, out of the Phy-fick Garden at Oxford, where he was Profeflor; and Den^s Rolls gave «p his eftate in Florida, on which he had hid out 40,000!. If any!one were inclined to cxercife his talent in a piece of Plotarchian biography, he would here find fufficient materials, though he fnould not difcover that Dr. S. died like his parallel under a tree ; or had ever patted a night in America, furrcunded by fires, which be vetfs under the neceffity of lighting againtt the wild beafts that howled nround him.Mr. Denys Rolle formed a botanical garden near Kxmouth, in Devonftv.rc, on a high hill where he meant to cultivate heaths; for which purpofe he freighted a veflel with mould from Hounflow ; _ He Communicated this to a brother Planter in the neighbourhood, Sir Francis Drake, and enquired ot him how he incr'eafed his Ericas, and where he gothis black earth : Why, from your hill, to be fure,anfvvered the Baronet. • .Dr. Sibthorp was the perfon who got hi midi introduced to the Duke of New cattle, with the news of the death of the Botany-Profeffor at Oxford, at the moment when an account was expefted of the death of the King of Spain; an event the Muufter had much at heart; and therefore alked, immediately 011 feeing the Doftor, who had rode poft, and was all over mud, “ Is he dead ?” « Yes, cried theDoor, over-joyed in having his Vufinefs anticipated, and I am come to fucceed him.”
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St James Chronicle or British Evening Post
London, Middlesex, GB
Tue, Aug 29, 1797
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