BY AN ANGLER. ,
[Siw Herenduminen Juan

" Equidem credo quia sit divinitus illis
Ingenium.”

TIRST AMERICAN FROM THE SECOND LONDON EDITION.

PHILADELPHIA:
CAREY AND LEACHESNUT STREET.

TO

WILLIAM BABINGTON,

M.D. F.R.S.

THESE CONVERSATIONS ARE DEDICATED,

IN REMEMBRANCE

OF SOME DELIGHTFUL DAYS PASSED IN HIS

SOCIETY,

AND IN GRATITUDE

FOR AN UNINTERRUPTED FRIENDSHIP OF

A

QUARTER OF A CENTURY.