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be able to give you a good account of the plants of 

 Mayo ; and nothing would give me greater pleasure 

 than to see a brother member of the Linnaean So- 

 ciety at Ca9tle Bourke where I reside, which is situ- 

 ated on Lake Carra, joining Lake Mask and Lake 

 Corrib ; being surrounded with immense high 

 mountains and bogs, which seem to promise much 

 gratification to a botanist, and have been, I believe, 

 but little examined. Dr. Brown, the author of the 

 Natural History of Jamaica, I heard chiefly resided 

 in lodgings at Ballinrobe. I paid him a visit one 

 morning, and found him in bed quite a cripple with 

 old age and the gout. He showed me a copy of a 

 Flora Hiber?iica, which seemed not much more than 

 a catalogue, and very imperfect. Some old plants 

 he has mentioned as new species, and showed me a 

 specimen of the Juncus sylvaticus for one. The 

 copy that was in London is coming over here for 

 correction, which I rather think he will have some 

 difficulty in doing. He talked to me a great deal 

 about the Jamaica plants, and the number he had 

 formerly sent to Linnaeus, who he told me corre- 

 sponded with him above twenty years ago. 



I saw at Lord Altamont's the true Irish wolf- 

 dog ; he has seven of them, and the only ones now 

 in Ireland. His brother has given me a very good 

 painting of one of the largest, done the natural 

 size. 



In a letter from Dr. Pulteney, he writes me word 

 you mention some sheets of a botanic work which 

 straggled to London last year, nobody knew to 

 what they belonged. I believe I can inform you ; 



