Illustrated biography; or, Memoirs of the great and the good of all nations and all times; comprising sketches of eminent statesmen, philosophers, heroes, artists, reformers, philanthropists, mechanics, navigators, authors, poets, divines, soldiers, savans, etc . kept chained in an outhouse, had broken from their confinement, and gotinto the yard among some dogs, which they immediately attacked. The howl-ing thus produced alarmed the whole neighborhood. Mr. Hunter ran into theyard to see what was the matter, and found one of them getting up the wall tomake his escape, and the other surrounded
Illustrated biography; or, Memoirs of the great and the good of all nations and all times; comprising sketches of eminent statesmen, philosophers, heroes, artists, reformers, philanthropists, mechanics, navigators, authors, poets, divines, soldiers, savans, etc . kept chained in an outhouse, had broken from their confinement, and gotinto the yard among some dogs, which they immediately attacked. The howl-ing thus produced alarmed the whole neighborhood. Mr. Hunter ran into theyard to see what was the matter, and found one of them getting up the wall tomake his escape, and the other surrounded by the dogs. He immediately laidhold of them both, and carried them back to their den ; but as soon as they weresecured, and he had time to reflect upon the risk of his own situation, he wasso much affected that he was in danger of fainting. Mr. Hunters valuable museum of anatomical preparations was purchased by-parliament after his death for £15,000; and it is now deposited in the hall be-longing to the Royal College of Surgeons, in Lincolns-Inn Fields, where thepublic are admitted to view it on the order of any member of the society. Thisdistinguished person died suddenly, on the 16th of October, 1793, in the sixty-sixth year of his age. 312 JAMES COOK. JAMES COOK. JAMES COOK was born October 27, 1728, at the village of Marton, irj theNorth Riding of Yorkshire, England. His parents were of the class of labor-ers. All the education he received amounted only to English reading, writing,and the elements of arithmetic. He was then, at the age of thirteen, boundapprentice to a small shopkeeper in the neighboring town of Snaith, which ison the seacoast. Here he became so smitten with the love of a sea-life, thathe could not rest lill his wish was gratified ; and his master was at last inducedto let him off, when he entered himself as one of the crew of a vessel engagedin the coal-trade. In this humble and laborious line of life he continued tillthe breaking out of the war with Fra
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