It must upon other occasions have been of a different character, as I found in our rambles together on Hampstead Heath; and not so much so from a readiness to communicate his knowledge of life and manners as of natural history in all its branches.

His mind was inquisitive, and he seems to have taken refuge from a remembrance of the distresses he had gone through in these studies and the employments to which they led.

Moreover such contemplations might tend profitably to counterbalance the painful truths which he had collected from his intercourse with mankind.

Had I been more intimate with him I should have ventured to touch upon his office as a Minister of the Gospel, and how far his heart and soul were in it, so as to make him a zealous and diligent labourer.

In poetry, tho' he wrote much, as we all know, he assuredly was not so.