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we have had a had typhus fever, which has caused 

 great mortality among the lower classes, chiefly 

 owing to the badness of the crops of last year, and 

 the want of food in the mountains. It is now sub- 

 siding, and the mal aria fortunately does not extend 

 to Florence. Lady Mary Anne and our children 

 have enjoyed constant good health ; the latter are 

 grown stronger since they left England. 



I ought not to forget to thank you for the con- 

 sequences of the letters you were so kind as to give 

 me. At Geneva I got acquainted with several per- 

 sons of science, as Mr. Pictet, MM. Jurine and 

 Morricand ; at Turin by chance with Professor Bi- 

 roli of the garden ; and at Milan I delivered your 

 letter to Oriani, and was made known to Mr. Her- 

 man of the garden and Mr. Breislach, the minera- 

 logist, who gave me a letter for Mr. Targioni. I 

 was obliged to send yours to the Marquis Ippolito 

 Durazzo, whose sister is here, married to the Sar- 

 dinian minister Brignoli, — a very amiable family. 



After proving myself so bad a correspondent, 

 it would be very unreasonable for me to hope to 

 trespass on your time, which is so much better em- 

 ployed ; but should you find a leisure moment, I 

 should feel very great pleasure in knowing you and 

 Lady Smith are well, as also in hearing anything 

 concerning Mr. Turner, Borrer, or any of our F.L.S. 

 who may ever think of me. 



I am, my dear Sir, 



Yours very sincerely, 



Thomas Gage. 



