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second part oddly enough, before the first part called the of Vegetation. The Low5 of tJu Pwnts, judging from a prefixed sonnet, must have appeared in 1788. and the second edition in 1790. Miss &ward, in her life .. I knew him well. and it was as far from his temper and habits, as it was unnecessary to his acquirements, to beg, borrow, or steal from any person on earth.' These passages at I any rate show how true and ardent a friend Edge· worth was to Dr Darwin long after his death. In a letter to my father. dated February, 1788, he says: 'I am