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and refused to take anything. He has since senta 
hint that he would be glad of a present. We mean 
to send him a Greek Testament, that a metropo- 
litan who has four suffragans may read a lesson 
of piety. 
I regret with you most sincerely the cruel end of 
this unfortunate youth. He had escaped from the 
thieves of Italy, and from the inhospitable climate 
of Sierra Leone. He had been with me blocked 
up eight days by pirates at Mount Athos. Poor 
fellow! he was then very anxious to hide my money, 
that we might have something, he said, to return 
home with. I shall set off in two or three days for 
Zante, where I shall winter. In January I propose 
to visit, with Hawkins, the Morea; and in the spring, 
or early in the summer, to return to England. I 
have made considerable additions to my collection of 
Greek plants and animals, having visited the Bithy- 
nian Olympus, Troy, Lemnos, Mount Athos, and 
Negropont. During my stay at Athens, I have 
procured a pretty exact knowledge of the agricul- 
ture and natural history of Attica. Tell our friends 
in Soho Square, that I have all the labour, if not all 
the sweets, of an Attic bee. 
J. SIBTHORP. 
Professor Sibthorp to J. E. Smith, 
Dear Sir, Oxford, Oct. 8, 1795. 
I regret extremely not being in Oxford when you 
favoured me with a call. In my way through Town 
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