l6 Travels through Turhry^ <^c. 



the country ; the ftate of agriculture, and the hiiprovemcnt* 

 that might be made in it; its ports and harbours; the 

 timber of Epirus fit for lliip-building ; the commerce of thefc 

 diftrifts, and the manners and opinions of our new French 

 fubjefts. On the 2^d of Auguft, and 6th of September, I 

 dcHvered to C. Comeyras two memoirs, the one being a con- 

 tinuance of the other, in order that he might tranfmit them 

 to government. 



On the 9th of September we failed in the Brune frigate 

 for Butrento, where we fpcnt the day, and arrived at Ancona 

 in the courfe of a few days. My colleague, who had been 

 almoft always indifpofed and in a ftate of fuffering fince 

 our tour through Perfia, here terminated his career, on the 

 3d of Oclober 179S, in confequence of a malignant fever 

 brought on by fatigxie. He has left a family in want, whom 

 I doubtlcfs have no need of recommending to the benevo- 

 lence and juftice of the government. 



I have brought w ith me, from the countries I have travel- 

 led through, a pretty large colleftion of plants, feeds, qua- 

 drupeds, birds, reptiles, river fifh, Infe&s, fliells and minerals, 

 as well as of medals, engraved ftones, and other objefts of 

 antiquity. I have Egyptian idols and mummies; a feleftiou 

 of drugs, moft of them unknown in Europe ; a ferics of the 

 medicines employed in Perfia ; and, in the laft place, fome 

 rare and valuable manufcripts. I have juft fent to the na- 

 tional garden of plants, feeds from Perfia, Mefopotamia, the 

 defert of Arabia, Syria, Cyprus, Afia Minor and Greece, in 

 order to be thei e fown and cultivated. A great number of 

 thofe which we fent home before, have been already reared, 

 and are in a thriving condition. 



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