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On his return to the British Isles he travelled thro’
the Highlands of Scotland with the Count Andreoni &
Faujas de St Fond the celebrated naturalist.* At that time
& in a previous [t?me] while a Student of Medicine, he received
great kindness & attentions from Sir John Dalrymple and
Lord Dundonald & many other of the most distinguished Characters
in Scotland. (See letters in Box).* He returned to Tortola
with the intention of practising physic there, & the expectation
of marrying an heiress Miss R. H. but the match
was broken off by some treacherous means & she married
Mr G — this cruel disappointment occasioned a severe illness
& caused his visit to America — where in Phila: he married
Miss B — in Oct. 1790[o=], I went immediately with her
& a friend Majr. Rivardi (a Swiss gentleman with whom
he became acquainted by accident in Phila. & th whom he
invited to go with him to restore his health, which was very
bad in consequence of sabre wounds received in the Russian
Service) to visit his mother & family in his native place.

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* See also many letters shewing the attachment felt for
him by many friends & relatives, & their high opinion of
his talents.