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Dr. Swartz to J. EF. Smith. 
Dear Sir, Stockholm, Oct. 16, 1808. 
Two years anda half are elapsed since our cor- 
respondence ceased. In order to remind you of your 
Scandinavian friend, I write a few lines in company 
with the Sequel of the Memoirs of the Academy of 
Science, until the last published. 
Though I have not had any immediate informa- 
tion from you, I have several times inquired about 
your welfare, and from the news I not long since 
obtained, I think my wishes for you not entirely 
frustrated. If I am so happy as to hear it from 
yourself, so much the better. 
We have long been exiled from foreign literature, 
except from that of your country, of which however 
we have had but sparing communications. Of your 
Exotic Botany I have got two volumes, and seen 
some fasciculiof the wonderfully well executed Flora 
Greca, with one part of its Prodromus from your 
hands. Lately I have also enjoyed a particular sa- 
tisfaction from the sight of the beautiful Astoria 
Fucorum of Mr. Turner. 
It can hardly be expected that anything remark- 
able should appear from this corner, during a period 
the most cruel that can be imagined ; so much more 
desolating, as in and outward causes seem to pre- 
pare completely the ruin. Under all this, for my 
part engaged to continue two current works, the 
Swedish Botany and Zoology, two volumes have ap- 
peared by my care during the two years past. They 
