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I have specimens of three or four rock plants 
from the mountains of the Morea, and I left about 
two hundred behind me at Patras. 
Flaxman is now executing a monument to the 
memory of our late friend ; but the best, by far, will 
be that which you have in hand. 
I remain, my dear Sir, 
Most truly yours, 
J, Hawkins. 
J. Hawkins, Esq. to J. EF. Smith. 
Dear Sir, Sunbury, Feb. 13, 1800. 
I have before me your two letters, and hasten to 
give you that information which lays in my power. 
In our first tour a regular journal was kept by Dr. 
Sibthorp of our daily peregrinations, and of every 
object of natural history discovered. Thus for in- 
stance you will find a list of the plants which we 
found in the middle of March on the shores of the 
Hellespont, and a few days after on the coast of 
Caria; but when we came to Cyprus, the form of 
the journal was so far changed, that only the vulgar 
names and uses, and the remarkable plants or birds 
were noted therein which daily occurred; and the 
whole Flora and Fauna Cypria were drawn up in 
systematical arrangement at the end. 
Every allowance must be made for the hurry and 
precipitation with which this Journal was written. 
The season for botanizing is so short in these 
southern latitudes, and such a profusion of new or 
