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tion to Mr. De Lessert and to Mr. Guyot. Any- 
body will show you their house at Passy ; and on 
Wednesdays they dine at their town-house, No. 58 
Rue Coghéron a Paris. 
Adieu! All happiness attend you ! 
W. Younce. 
I almost envy you the happiness you will expe- 
rience in this family ; and were I not your friend I 
should be downright envious. 
Rev. Dr. Goodenough to J. Eb. Smith, Paris. 
Dear Sir, August 13, 1787. 
Your silence made us very apprehensive that you 
were not well; the fact it appears was so. However, 
we were not a little gratified by reading in your 
letter that you had been ill but were recovered. 
The we here spoken of, means myself and Mar- 
sham, who is at present my chief communicant.— 
Well, when do you come home; you will find 
yourself much wanted. Our Natural History So- 
ciety, under the auspices of our illustrious presi- 
dents Fordyce and Pitcairn, drones on in its usual 
course. I attended one night, and heard Dr. For- 
dyce read an extempore lecture upon a new arrange- 
ment of shells. Such humming, such hawing, 
mumbling, snuffimg, such interruptions in looking 
for his shells to illustrate as he went on, that not a 
soul could tell what he would be at. After he had 
done, I hinted to him that I did not understand 
