CHRONOLOGY.

1797. George Keate, F.R.S., died, aged sixty-seven. He was born at

Trowbridge in Wilts, educated at Kingston school, called to the bar,

abandoned the profession of the law, amused himself with his pen, and

wrote several works. His chief production is the account of “Capt.

Wilson’s Voyage to the Pelew Islands;” his “Sketches from Nature,”

written in the manner of Sterne, are pleasing and popular.

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