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me some commands that I can have my part in 
your commissions from Italy. I am with the great- 
est respect and consideration, 
Your faithful Friend and obliged Servant, 
IppoLiro Durazzo. 
Thomas J. Woodward, Esq.to J. E. Smith, Paris. 
Dear Sir, Bungay, Oct. 11, 1787. 
I received your very friendly and highly enter- 
taining letter on my return from a short tour, in the 
course of which I had seen your father at Norwich; 
and from him I heard of your arrival at Paris, and 
some hints of your agreeable tour to Mont Cenis, 
which must have been most delightful. 1 should 
have highly rejoiced at spending that time with 
you, and still more at visiting the glaciers. I have 
lately viewed Saussure’s second tome of his Voy- 
age dans les Alpes, which is extremely interesting ; 
and I can fancy myself following your steps in the 
delightful valley of Chamonny, and up Montanvert 
to the Glacier du Bois, which I suppose was the one 
you visited, as your father said you made no very 
near approach to Mont Blanc, on the summit of 
which it would be my ambition to set my foot if I 
visited that country. Saussure must be a very enter- 
taining companion in that tour, of which he seems 
to have examined every inch. He is a botanist, as 
appears from his mentioning the scarce plants in 
several parts of the Alps; but according to him, a 
part of Mount Jura is the best botanizing ground 
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