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vigilant correspondent; yet I shall occasionally take 

 up my pen, if for no other purpose, to give you 

 some account of our proceedings here, and to ar- 

 range with you many things which we talked about 

 but left unfinished. 



Believe me at all times 



Your very affectionate and faithful Friend, 



\V. Roscoe. 



Sir «/. E. Smith to Mr. Roscoe. 



My dear Sir, Norwich, September 23. 1803. 



I am afraid you will begin to think me unworthy 

 of your wish that " our correspondence should not 

 be limited to two letters." If, however, you imagine 

 that this wish or any other kind expression in your 

 truly acceptable letter is not deeply and gratefully felt 

 by me, you do me injustice. Let me explain what 

 has prevented my writing sooner. Early in this 

 month we went to Yarmouth, and spent five days 

 with my friend Dawson Turner ; he and I had 

 enough to do with our Mosses and Lichens, and I 

 had much to learn from him about German corre- 

 spondence ; for he is so good as to relieve me from 

 the burthen of dealing with those indefatigable 

 writers and questioners, the German naturalists. He 

 is about printing a neat little book on the Mosses 

 of Ireland. We then visited my wife's relations 

 at Lowestofft and Saxmundham, twenty-four miles 

 further in a very pleasant country, tame compared 

 with your noble scenes, but rich, woody, highly cul- 

 tivated, and in most seasons verdant, — though the 



