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table productions. His views have met the aid and 

 encouragement of Government, and he travels with 

 more useful advantages than an individual would 

 be likely to obtain without such powerful assist- 

 ance. 



Mr. Fleming and myself have often indulged in 

 conversation about you. He has a great desire to 

 be better known to you ; but how soon he may 

 have that opportunity I cannot say. He is here in 

 the full enjoyment of health and all the ease and 

 luxury a man can wish for ; consequently he is very 

 indifferent about leaving the country. 



Dr. Roxburgh arrived here a few weeks since, 

 and is as busy as ever. I have this moment a note 

 from him, wherein he says, " I am surrounded and 

 in confusion with the various parts of a new palm 

 from the Moluccas, which is now in flower." In 

 my next I may be able to tell you something about 

 this said palm, as I mean to go down to the garden 

 in a day or two. 



I find the plant which produces that valuable drug 

 in the Materia Medica, Columba Root, is at length 

 ascertained. It proves, I believe, to be a species of 

 Menispermum, just what I some years ago pre- 

 dicted, when I sent Dr. Roxburgh specimens of a 

 root bearing close resemblance with Columba Root, 

 and used by the natives of Hindostan in the same 

 cases you use that plant. This was also a Meni- 

 spermum. 



Pray, my dear Sir, make my best respects to 

 Mrs. Smith. How often do I reflect with feelings 

 of pleasure on the few happy days I passed in the 



