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soever the Abbe" might pride himself in this posses- 

 sion, he found he was in danger of innovation where 

 he thought himself most secure. " Do you know/' 

 says he, "that La Billardiere has transformed the 

 Corraa you granted me into MazeutoxeroJi? What 

 a barbarous name ! It seems to me as if a Vandal 

 or a Longobard had been put in possession of my 

 territory. God help me ; is it not misfortune 

 enough to be stripped of my property, but I must 

 be robbed by such a monster as Mazeutoxeron ! " 



From the Abbd Correa. 



London, Jan. SO, 1797. 

 Do not judge of my readiness in answering your 

 letters by the long time I have waited to answer 

 yours of the 3rd instant. I hope I will seldom be 

 interdicted the use of my right-hand to write, as I 

 have been in the present occasion, by an abscess in 

 the second finger of it, which is at present perfectly 

 healed, after a tedious and they say dangerous sup- 

 puration in this cold season. By this time I am 

 sure your work is advanced : I wish I could say as 

 much of mine ; but I begin to feel the necessity of 

 drawing by myself, otherwise it will be impossible 

 to advance as fast as I wish. Willemet's Herbarium 

 Mauritianum I have seen in Usteri's Botanic An- 

 nals, and is, as you say, a poor performance. The 

 Conway of which the preface speaks is the French 

 general commanding in India, who perhaps did per- 

 secute Willemet rather from difference of party in 

 politics, than from any dislike to natural knowledge. 



