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good health, supported by hope of re-union with 

 those whom I most loved, in a happier state ! 



Our plans are to pass the summer at Brighton : 

 no place is so agreeable to me as my own home, 

 where I have been seventeen years collecting sources 

 of pleasure, though it docs not seem to be the will 

 of God that I should enjoy it. Soon after my arri- 

 val here I was informed that two of the Duke of 

 Richmond's horses had been poisoned by some 

 plant in their pasture. I remembered the (Emu/the 

 crocata* by the side of a rivulet in 1782, and pro- 

 nounced it to be the evil in question, and was then 

 told that the pasture is by the side of this very 

 stream. 



I have received the last seven numbers of English 

 Botany. I observe a good figure of Conferva rosea 

 (a good name): I found it at Worthing in 1782, 

 and showed it to Hudson, who thought it his pur- 

 purascens. 



Thomas Frankland. 



From the same. 



Dear Sir, Chichester, June 20, I SOS. 



As Parliament will be dissolved in a few days, I 

 take the opportunity of writing a few lines by my 

 brother's fiat, whom however I purpose to bring in 

 again, together with his present colleague. 



I received your kind letter, and here conclude my 



* Hemlock, — Water Dropwort. See English Botany, fig. 

 2313 ; not the Common Hemlock, Conium maculatum. 



