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Galeopsis, and many flowers of that class. The 

 most of the umbelliferous weeds are subject to the 

 same perplexity. If there could be a precise posi- 

 tive character pointed out to refer to at once, it 

 would save much time and trouble. 



I am, Sir, your most humble servant, 



A. Caldwell. 



From the same. 



My dear Sir, Dublin, Nov. 17, 1795. 



I have a long time owed you some account of 

 myself; I flatter myself at least that you expect it 

 from me, and think it your due. Nothing enter- 

 taining occurred on the journey ; — the weather 

 pleasant, and North Wales I had often traversed 

 before. We had a good passage from Holyhead, 

 and the ladies under my charge landed safe in Dub- 

 lin. My stay there was but for a few days, being 

 obliged to go to the country on particular business. 

 Though I travelled many miles, I cannot say the 

 landscape anywhere was as beautiful as what you 

 showed me in the neighbourhood of Norwich ; if 

 truth must be uttered, it was more the reverse than 

 you could conceive. The posting too, I think, 

 would not have put Dr. Smollet into good humour. 

 The first chaise, of a venerable antiquity, broke all 

 to pieces and overset, just as it came to the end of 

 the pavement ; et pour comble de disgrace, a fair 

 stranger, a cousin of mine from Shrewsbury, was 

 under my care : this was her first adventure in a 



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