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Mr. Latham will be much obliged to you if you 
can procure a good description, &c. of a bird called 
Courier, described by several, but only seen by 
Aldrovandus, from whom the others took their 
account. The description given is too short and 
imperfect to give a just idea of it. 
I saw Dr. Goodenough and Mr. Marsham this 
day. They and theirs are well, and are anxious to 
see you; but not more than, dear Sir, 
Yours most sincerely, 
W. Jones. 
J. Eb. Smith to his Father. 
Honoured Sir, Rome, April 11, 1787. 
Yesterday I received from Genoa yours of Ja- 
nuary 4th, inclosed in one from M. Durazzo, which 
informed me of the death of his father, a fine old 
man of eighty-five, whom every body loved, and I 
was very much pleased with. Iam not partial to 
the bread of Italy, ’tis all made with leaven, and 
so sour that nothing but custom can reconcile one 
to it, nor can I ever eat it without something to 
conceal the taste. Since our return from Naples 
we have been very busy in seeing houses, pictures, 
and statues, and with the ceremonies of the Holy 
Week. The palace Borghese contains I think the 
finest collection of pictures I ever saw; there are 
above seventeen hundred originals, scarcely any of 
which are not good, and some exquisitely fine. 
You will find accounts of them in books. There is 
