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PREFACE. vii
The sseet being returned back into the ports os England, the
count of Danneskiold, Mr. de Roemeling and Mr. Norden
set out again, in the month of October 1740, under the command
of Sir Chaloner Ogle, who was to go to America, to rein-
force admiral Vernon. The design was to besiege Carthagena.
Mr. Norden could have given us a very good account os that
enterprise. He had even begun it and had drawn several iketches.
But other employments made him afterwards lay aside this
design. The expedition being ended, our volunteers returned
back into England in the autumn of 1741.
At his return to London, Mr. Norden was received there
more agreeably than ever. His acquaintance with the Engliiri
made him adopt their solid taste, and the advantages he had got
srom his expeditions gave a new lustre to his merit. He paffed
the winter and a part os the year sollowing at London, and
was admitted there a member os the Royal Society.
It was about this time, that his health began to decline consi-
derably. His great application to labour very foon exhaufted
a body already much worn by the satigues os war and os sea,
and whose weak and delicate constitution was not corresponding
to the active ardour of his mind. He sound himself attacked
with a consumption, and was in danger os his life. In hopes
that the change os climate would contribute to recover him, he
proposed to himfels in the fummer of 1742 to make a tour in
France, and to vifit, with the count os Danneskiold, the coasts
and ports of that kingdom.
Besore they made this progress, they were willing to see
Paris, and to make fome ftay there. This pleasure was difturbed
by a new attack of the fame diforder, as Mr. Norden had juft
recovered from at London, At length death deprived us of
him at Paris, on the 2 2d of September 1742, and interrupted the
courfe of a life, which promifed to be ftill extremely ufesul.
The
The sseet being returned back into the ports os England, the
count of Danneskiold, Mr. de Roemeling and Mr. Norden
set out again, in the month of October 1740, under the command
of Sir Chaloner Ogle, who was to go to America, to rein-
force admiral Vernon. The design was to besiege Carthagena.
Mr. Norden could have given us a very good account os that
enterprise. He had even begun it and had drawn several iketches.
But other employments made him afterwards lay aside this
design. The expedition being ended, our volunteers returned
back into England in the autumn of 1741.
At his return to London, Mr. Norden was received there
more agreeably than ever. His acquaintance with the Engliiri
made him adopt their solid taste, and the advantages he had got
srom his expeditions gave a new lustre to his merit. He paffed
the winter and a part os the year sollowing at London, and
was admitted there a member os the Royal Society.
It was about this time, that his health began to decline consi-
derably. His great application to labour very foon exhaufted
a body already much worn by the satigues os war and os sea,
and whose weak and delicate constitution was not corresponding
to the active ardour of his mind. He sound himself attacked
with a consumption, and was in danger os his life. In hopes
that the change os climate would contribute to recover him, he
proposed to himfels in the fummer of 1742 to make a tour in
France, and to vifit, with the count os Danneskiold, the coasts
and ports of that kingdom.
Besore they made this progress, they were willing to see
Paris, and to make fome ftay there. This pleasure was difturbed
by a new attack of the fame diforder, as Mr. Norden had juft
recovered from at London, At length death deprived us of
him at Paris, on the 2 2d of September 1742, and interrupted the
courfe of a life, which promifed to be ftill extremely ufesul.
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