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but every house in the town looks as if it had been 
cleaned and painted within this fortnight. 
Adieu, my dear Madam ; 
Iam your dutiful Son, 
J. E. Smitru. 
Rev. Dr. Goodenough to J. E. Smith, Leyden. 
My dear Sir, Ealing, July 3, 1786. 
I give you much joy upon your succeeding with 
such éclat at Leyden, and am much obliged to you 
for your kind remembrance of me; you cannot re- 
peat it too often: there are very few people with 
whom I correspond for pleasure, because I can find 
nobody, scarcely, who loves to live with his eyes 
open, and has philosophy enough to talk of any 
thing but common occurrences. I pity your sea- 
sickness, which horrid consideration curbs my roving 
spirit, and bids me think that I am very well off in 
staying athome. How delightful must your hours 
pass with Allamand and Van Royen! Your account 
of the Chamarops humilis*, planted by Clusius, is 
truly wonderful. Is it likely still to live; or does it 
bear marks of weakness and decay? The age of 
vegetables is a curious and useful subject ;—you talk 
of getting specimens from Van Royen—.(Just at 
this moment, which is ten o'clock at night, I have 
caught the Cimexv personatus, which settled on my 
paper.—N.B. This is the second of this species 
which I have taken this year, both of them at night, 
* See Tour, i. p. 11. 
