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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH of the late Honourable CADWALLADER COLDEN, formerly Lieutenant-Governor of New-York, with an account of his writings.

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THIS truly eminent and worthy character, who united in himself the several qualities we are accustomed to admire in the physician, naturalist, and philosopher, was the son of the reverend Alexander Colden, of Dunse in Scotland, and was born on the 17th day of February, 1688. After he had laid the foundation of a liberal education under the immediate inspection of his father, he went to the university of Edinburgh, where in 1705 he completed his course of collegiate studies. He now devoted his at

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tention to medicine and mathematical science until the year 1708, when being allured by the fame of William Penn's colony, he came over to this country about two years after. He practised physic with no small share of reputation till 1715, when he returned to England. While in London, he was introduced to that eminent philosopher Dr. Edmund Halley, who formed so favourable an opinion of a paper on Animal Secretion, written by Dr. Colden in early life, that he read it before the Royal Society, the notice of which it greatly attracted. At this time he formed an acquaintance with some of the most distinguished literary and scientific characters, with whom he ever after maintained a regular correspondence. From London he went to Scotland and married a young lady of a respectable Scotch family by the name of Christie, with whom he returned to America in 1716.

In 1718, he settled in the city of New-York; but soon after relinquished the practice of physic, and became a public character: he held in succession the office of surveyor-general of the province, master in chancery, member of the council, and lieutenant-governor. Previously

to his acceptance of this last station, he obtained a patent for a tract of land, designated by the name of Coldenham, near Newburgh, in this state, at which place he retired with his family about the year 1755, where he spent a great part of his life. Here he appears to have been occupied without interruption in the pursuit of knowledge, particularly in botanical and mathematical studies, at the same time that he continued his correspondence with learned men in Europe and America.