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obtained of the charmer science of the botany. This 

 little present is a Monography of eight and twenty 

 new sorts of Laurels that I discovered and drawed 

 in the native places, and under the trees of the 

 South America. The present was prohibited me to 

 publish it, and so I send only to you the engraved 

 patterns ; and you will have the goodness to tell 

 me any person to give them in Madrid, along with 

 another exemplar, that I inscribe for your media- 

 tion, and in my name to the wise Society of Lon- 

 don, asking you and the wise Society will be so 

 good to censure, with kindness, the imitation of the 

 patterns in the botanist part, and tell me the defects 

 which you know in the analitic or anatomic part of 

 Linneo's system. 



I send to you the note of collections which I will 

 sail to live ; if any wise man lover of the botany 

 will buy some of them, you will have the goodness 

 to tell me by our ambassador the Count of Fernan- 

 nuiiez. 



I will send to you the other exemplars of the 

 Laurography so soon as I can publish it. I shall be 

 very glad if you will be so good to answer me, only 

 to have a memory or letter of the wise Sir Smith, 

 honour of the botany for your works that I read 

 every day to learn and to know your erudition. 



I was eleven years in the South America, and I 

 experienced great many tempest in the Cape of 

 Hornos and in the South Sea, and by land the re- 

 volution of the Indians under the command of Tu- 

 pac Amaro. In Spain I have been many times to 

 be killed bv the bavonets of the famous scholars of 



