1823.] 
by Dr. Gardeter from Carolina: some 
seeds of plants, and a Herbarium Turi- 
namense in spirits of wine, and several 
other things. 
The manuscripts are very nume- 
rous: all his own works are interleaved 
with abundance of: notes, especially 
the “ Systema Nature,’ ‘‘ Species Plan- 
tarum,” ‘‘ Materia Medica,’ ‘* Philoso- 
pliaBotanice,” ‘‘Clavis Medicina,” &c. 
&e. [have not yet found the ‘‘ Nemesin 
Divine ;’ but I have a vast number of 
papers I have not yet perused. Ihave 
“Iter Laponicum,” “Iter Dalecarlium,” 
and some others; also a diary of the 
life of Linneus, in his own hand, for 
about the thirty first years of his life. 
I have also “‘ Deseriptiones Liliorum et 
Palmarum,” and ‘‘ Systema Mamma- 
lium,” by Linneus the son; the first of 
which I shall probably publish soon. 
The letters to Linneus are about 3000. 
Young Linneus left all his things in 
such disorder, that- I have the utmost 
difficulty in arravging them, and I 
every day discover something I did 
not before know. 
LORSTERS, 
These are caught in baskets, on the 
coasts of Scotland and Norway; and, 
when brought into the 'CThames, are 
placed in large boxes, of sufficient 
width between the joints to et the 
water flow freely through. They are 
then carried to a place called Old 
Haven, a few miles below Gravesend, 
on the Essex coast, where the water 
is salt. . Thence they are drafted, as 
occasion may require, and sent to 
Billingsgate, to be boiled alive for the 
gratification of the luxurious. 
TRAVELLING IN HOLLAND. 
By the easy way of travelling on 
canals, an industrious man loses no 
time from his business; for he can 
write, eat, or sleep, as he goes. . By 
means of these, the people that live in 
boats hold some proportion to those 
that live in houses. 
TOWNS OF THE ANCIENT GERMANS. 
There is a passage in Tacitus some- 
times quoted by the learned,—‘“‘ It is 
evident that the Germans have no ci- 
ties to dwell in, nor do they even admit 
of habitations contiguous.” This must 
be taken ,with: some exception for 
countries bordering on the Rhine, as 
Cesar finds -Oppida among them. 
Speaking of the Ubii, he adds, “ that 
many of their customs they had bor- 
rowed from the Gauls, their near 
neighbours.” This may, perhaps, ac- 
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count for the disagreement between 
Tacitus and Cesar. 
LADY M, W. MONTAGU. 
On passing through Rotterdam, this 
lady presented a manuscript copy of 
her Turkish Letters to the Rey. Mr. 
Sowden, the resident English elergy- 
man; whose son, Capt, 8. afierwards 
ascended in a balloon with Sheldon. 
A few years after, an English adven- 
turer borrowed them for a day; and, 
by the aid of five or six amanuenses, 
copied the whole ; and then, to teaze 
the minister Lord Bute, the writer’s 
son-in-law, the whole were published, 
but with initials; and no work ever 
had an equal run. 
Philip Thicknesse happened by 
some means to get possessed of other 
Letters, and, thinking to bargain with 
the minister, opened a negociation ; 
but, trusting Lord B. with a personal 
inspection, some powerful footmen 
turned him into the street. He chal- 
lenged Lord B. and published an 
appeal; but was contemned or laugh- 
ed at. 
Forty years after, - Sir Richard 
Phillips secing some Letters of Addi- 
son, Pope, and others, lying in the win- 
dow of a cheesemonger, bought them 
for a few pence; and, on enquiring their 
souree, he found that two or three 
sacks-full had been bought at the office 
of a deceased attorney, but that some 
had been recovered by one of his 
clerks, a Mr. Silverlock, in Serjeant’s 
Inn. The rest had been dispersed in 
wrapping up small quantities of but- 
ter and cheese! Sir Richard now 
hastened to Silverlock, who related 
that his employer had been solicitor to 
Mr. Wortley, Lady Mary’s husband ; 
and that, owing to young Montagu 
residing in Turkey, the family-papers 
had never been claimed; that he and 
his fellow clerks had filled the sacks 
from the dusty shelves, and sent them 
to the next cheesemonger; but that a 
few accidentally remained: on one of 
which seeing the name of Addison, he 
found that the others consisted of let- 
ters of Lady Mary, Mr, W., Lord 
Bute, Addison, Pope, &c, Shocked 
at what he had done, he endeavoured 
to recover the whole; but the greater 
part had been used, and others had 
been so mixed with various papers, 
that he abandoned the search, though 
the recent discovery proved that he 
had been too precipitate. Sir Richard 
now negociated with Silverlock, who 
modestly 
