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that you will have a double assurance that I am, 

 my dear Friend, ever truly yours, 



W. Roscoe. 



Sir «/. E. Smith to Mr, Roscoe. 



My dear Friend, Norwich, Sept. 28, 1818. 



I have not much to say, except to express the 

 pleasure I have had so lately in your society, and 

 my happiness at seeing you so well. On Sunday 

 the treacherous weather just permitted me to climb 

 from Matlock to the high rocks on Cromford Moor, 

 often celebrated in English Botany : I had not 

 been up to them since 1792. I was quite enchanted 

 with the wide extended view ; and the balmy air 

 among heath, bilberries, ferns, mosses, &c. seemed 



" Redolent of joy and youth, 

 To breathe a second spring." 



I met with all my old friends among the Lichens, 

 &c. ; but the long dry summer seems to have kept 

 back their fructification. 



I have written to Mr. Coke about your intended 

 visit. 



The worthy Bishop of Winchester writes that he 

 is " exceedingly delighted " with my Cambridge 

 pamphlet. 'Tis curious that four Oxford bishops 

 should decidedly approve of my pretensions. 



I have just got a work of Sprengel's on Umhelli- 

 fera, — which I think he has reformed almost as 

 successfully as you have the Scitaminea. In it I am 

 called — >" fieya Kvdoc, fipiTavvojv" — (j)ev aiSooc, ! 



J. E. Smith. 



