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PREFACE
TO
THE FIRST EDITION.
In submitting to the Public 2 Memoir of a great man, it may naturally be expected that an author should endeavour to convey to them some idea of the associations, or other cireum- stances, which have prompted the undertaking.
My father practised on the borders of a forest, and when he was called at night to visit a distant patient, it was the greatest treat to me, then a little boy, to be allowed to saddle my pony and accompany him. My father knew the forest nearly as well as his own garden; but still in passing bogs im impenetrable darkness, the more refined topography of a forester would �
