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Ippolito, go for four or five days to Cornegliano, 
their country-seat, a magnificent and delightful pa- 
lace by the sea-side, four miles from Genoa, where 
their museum is; and they all so earnestly entreated 
me to go there with them to assist in arranging 
and naming the various things, that I could not re- 
fuse it without being rude and ungrateful. Indeed 
they merit every attention from me; their friend- 
ship is valuable and sincere ; their acquaintance is 
in the highest degree agreeable to me ; and people 
of more elegant, cultivated minds are nowhere to be 
found. 
I remain, dear Sir, &c., 
J. E. Smiru. 
Dr. Younge being on many accounts in a hurry 
to get home, we agreed to part at Pavia; and he 
joined a friend who was going through Switzer- 
land. 
Dr. Younge to J. E. Smith. 
My dear Sir, Geneva, July 6, 1787. 
You will probably be much surprised to learn 
that I have already passed the Alps, and find my- 
self much at my ease on the borders of the Lake of 
Geneva. 
On the 25th ult. I left Milan, without having 
had the pleasure of seeing Locatelli. The 26th 
was entirely employed upon the Lago Maggiore, 
which I confess did not answer my expectations. 
We entered from the great lake into the smaller 
one of Margozza: on the banks of this last I found 
