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removed it. To the excessive heat I perhaps owe 

 ray illness. 



Your ever affectionate Friend, 



J. E. Smith. 



Mr. Roscoe to Sir J. E. Smith. 



My dear Friend, Toxteth Park, Sept. 3, 1825. 



Your most kind and welcome letter from Hen- 

 bury Hill should have been sooner acknowledged, 

 had not continual interruptions, combined with a 

 state of unaccountable indolence and debility, pre- 

 vented me from turning my thoughts to any subject 

 but such as had irresistible claims upon me, and 

 from which I extricated myself the first moment it 

 was in my power. If, in return for the narrative 

 you have so kindly given me of your peregrinations 

 and transactions since you left home, I should fur- 

 nish you w T ith mine for the same period, they would 

 appear like the track of a snail compared to the 

 flight of an eagle, or the journal of a pedlar to the 

 history of some mighty traveller. You pass from 

 county to county, visit your friends, and take up 

 your abode where you please ; whilst I remain on 

 the same spot, without emigrating even from the 

 blue bed to the brown, and whenever I am disturbed 

 only exclaim, 



" Let me, let me rest." 



The only object that excited my exertion was the 

 publication of my Monandrian Plants. 



I need not say there are many things in these on 

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