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and lest I should be hurt, he had carefully cut off the dangerous part! 

 Well I told him that was just what I wanted. So he has gone in 

 search of more. I could do a great deal better for you, but the expense 

 of every material and of every sort of work is so enormous, that the 

 revenue of the Smithsonian would not suffice for one naturalist at 

 Constantinople. I have seen nothing so rich in ichthyology as the 

 bay of Naples. It is wonderful what a variety of curious sea bred 

 creatures they eat there. I thought of you every time I went out. 

 I am rejoiced, with my whole heart, at the success of both your 

 translations. I hope to be at home at Washington again some day, 

 and shall be very happy to promote your views so far as I am able. 

 You will be a "great aid and comfort" to Jewett and will find him 

 a most efficient and able auxiliary. I learn from Garrigue that he 

 is entirely content with your work, and hope it will be a lucrative 

 affair for both of you. The text, I confess, disappoints me. It is 

 far from being full enough. Did you add anything? Well, I claim 

 a part of the credit. Quifacit per alium etc. And didn't I recommend 

 you to Garrigue? 



I wish the Smithsonian would send out a few sets of meteorological 

 instruments to be used here and at other missionary stations. Our 

 missionaries are a truly noble set of men, and as remarkable for talent 

 as for devotion to their cause. There are many excellent observers 

 among them, and whatever they undertake will be faithfully and 

 thoroughly done. We mean to go to Egypt this winter and back by 

 way of Syria, if my poor wife is well enough. What particular thing 

 do you want me to look for in those countries? I wish I had two or 

 three barometers, I would carry one along and observe at every 

 resting place, and by leaving one at Alexandria and another at 

 Bayreuth, I suppose some interesting results might be arrived at. 

 We shall try to go to Petra (this is a little confidential), but I am 

 afraid Mrs. M. can't cross the desert. 



The natural history of the Bosphorus, though you would find 

 it interesting and full of life, is not striking to an ignoramus. There 

 being no forests, and scarcely any trees, there are few birds. Hawks 

 of various kinds abound. There are a few storks, two kinds of gulls 

 very abundant and very tame, and the "ame damnee" by thousands. 

 There are many fish principally small, and quite a variety of shellfish, 

 but in Coleoptera, as I learned from Mr. Souza the Spanish minister, 



