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I shall long to show you Rose Castle. Whether 
it be a paradise or not, every one’s Own mind must 
determine ;—Satan could not find a paradise in the 
garden of Eden. 
Yours most sincerely, 
S. CaRLisieE. 
From the same. 
My dear Sir, Rose Castle, Sept. 14, 1810. 
I am always glad to havea little botanical nib- 
bling with you. All I give you is my opinion, 
whether right or wrong, and you always take it in 
good part.- This encourages me to speak with 
greater freedom. Your German botanist Tliggé 
is I think quite right about Paspalus (Gr. Tao- 
maXoc) instead of Paspalum. There can be no de- 
pendence in general upon Linnzus for learned cri- 
ticism. I believe he took all upon trust, accord- 
ingly as he consulted books or men. I could easily 
believe that he met with the word paspalum as the 
accusative of paspalus, and supposed it to be the 
nominative of the right name: or he might have 
seen the accusative in Greek, zasraXov, and have 
thought it anominative: or he might have thought 
that, like many words ending in oc, waomadoc was 
read also wao7aAov in the nominative. Many have 
done it before Linneus. The old Latins observing 
in Greek xacoda the accusative of cacaic, ‘a helmet’, 
taking it for a nominative, made their noun casszs, 
or cassida. Monstrous! So also xcparnp, ‘a bowl’, 
made xparnpa in the accusative. The Latins igno- 
