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as to bring them to the love of virtue and of truth 
(and he seems in earnest, pray Heaven he may!). It 
was not much to be expected that his education and 
company and way of life in this age should permit 
him to escape the follies he speaks of; but if they 
serve to showthemselves to him in their true colours, 
and he loves virtue the more for it, I could almost 
say they will do him honour. ’Tis noble to reform, 
though not so great, so estimable as to be innocent, 
nor can ever be so happy. 
JAMES SMITH. 
The Rev. Henry Bryant toMr.James Edward Smith. 
Dear Sir, Heydon, Nov. 11, 1782. 
I congratulate you on your safe return from your 
little northern tour, and am sorry the weather 
proved so unfavourable as to spoil much of the 
pleasure of it. I have sent you a specimen of my 
Lichenparellus. 1 think it differs from yours, though 
perhaps yours may be right and mine wrong. 
We have had a very wet, uncomfortable, sickly 
summer, and I suffered much from the epidemic 
influenza, consequently have done but little in the 
botanical way: the chief things I have found are 
these, viz. Scirpus pauciflorus, Lightfoot; Galium 
erectum, Hudson; Scutellaria minor ; Peucedanum 
Stlaus ; Leonurus Cardiaca ; Ricca fluitans, and, I 
believe, Zargzonia. 
Our turnips in Norfolk this season have suffered 
greatly from a species of black caterpillar; thou- 
sands of acres have been destroyed by them, and no 
