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I am heartily glad your travels through Greece 

 are performed at the desk near which I had some 

 pleasing silent excursions before you undertook the 

 task. That climate does not seem to agree with 

 English constitutions. Another traveller of great 

 expectation, Mr. Tweddell, (probably you knew 

 him,) found the effects of that air and country fatal, 

 and is much lamented. I always before this had a 

 favourable prepossession about the healthiness of 

 Greece, and cannot recollect that the ancients took 

 notice of it as being dangerous to the human con- 

 stitution. 



If ever you quit botany for relaxation, you may 

 look into Helen Maria Williams. In the vast profu- 

 sion of chaff there may be found a few good grains 

 of fact. 



Farewell for the present, fellow citizen and coun- 

 tryman ! I believe we should rather say subject : 

 and to all friends communicate my affectionate tri- 

 bute from West Britain. 



Yours sincerely, 



A. Caldwell. 



From Walter Wade, M.D. 



Dear Sir, Dublin, Nov. 7, 1801. 



Much is due from me on the subject of Irish bo- 

 tany, since the Linnaean Society honoured me so 

 highly by associating me with them. I shall, how- 

 ever, now make a beginning. 



A favourable circumstance has lately occurred, 

 which enables me to submit to the Society some 



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