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very industrious about botany, and knows a great 
deal of the matter; we are often together. Batt 
is coming back to Genoa. We have made a cata- 
logue of the plants at the villetta, which amount 
to about 500; but I hope to increase them much. 
Yesterday afternoon I spent there very agreeably 
with only Mr. Cattaneo; he is a most amiable man. 
Mrs. Lomellina, the senator’s wife, has a pretty villa 
just out of town, by the Lanthorn ; I was there the 
other evening, and never saw the succulent plants 
so fine, they are really stupendous. From it is the 
best view of Genoa I know; I mean for a picture of 
the town; for the view from Mr. Durazzo’s villetta 
is on the whole vastly superior. 
Count Durazzo has promised me a copy of his 
catalogue of prints, with remarks, lately superbly 
printed by the man at Parma *; I have not yet seen 
it. Cattaneo promises to reprint his poems, &c., in 
one volume. 
Adieu, my dear Friend, 
J. E. Smiru. 
Mr. Wm. Jones to J. EF. Smith, Paris. 
Dear Sir, London, August, 1787. 
From some circumstances that attended your fa- 
vour from Genoa, I have been puzzled to determine 
whether you have thereby more gratified my feel- 
ings, or flattered my pride. I cannot assert that I 
am insensible to the latter, nor will I believe any 
one who affects the reverse: the only misfortune 
* Bodoni, 
