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quoted by any author, I believe, except Dr. Puhency, in 

 hi* Dili", tic Cinchona, and who informed mc that hit 

 figure was communicaied to him by Dr. I lope of Edin- 

 burgh.-Mr. Hawkins, now living .it Do* better, Doctct. 

 a contemporary of Sir 11am Sloane, mid with whom he 

 lived for fomc time in the Utter put of bit life, was to 

 obliging as to favour mc v. ith an impreffion of this plate, 

 accompanied with the following letter, Hcalio favoured 

 me with an account of the Cinchona by Condaminc, and 

 which feems the fame ahcady publifhed by Condaminc 

 himfclf in the French Tranfacliom. 



Mn. HAWKINS'S LETTER. 



I UOIIVM the favour of yours and in return fhall 

 give you all the inrormtion 1 am able concerning the 

 Cinchona. The ipcrimcm which 1 made the drawing 

 from came inclofed in a large quantity of the bark, fe- 

 vcral pieces of wood with the bark on, and branches of 

 the leaves in flower and feed, packed tip in a cow or ox- 

 hide, ai a prefent from Monf. Condaminc (then rcliding 

 in Peru) to I>r. Cromwell Mortimer, Correfponding Se- 

 cretary to the Royal Society in the year 1740. The fpeci- 

 mens were in a dried crumpled Hate, which 1 expanded 

 t>y means of warm water, in onlcr to complete the draw- 

 ing. The plate was engtaved at the expence of the Royal 

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