314 fravelsin Greece, Turkey, Be. 
_than Bruguiere, becaufe I was younger, more habituated to 
sbadily exercife, and accuflomed to drink water. - 
. Wefpent fome time on ‘the unhealthful coaft of Syria, 
waiting for a veflel to convey us to Europe. We even tra- 
verfed the ifland of Cyprus without any accident, during the 
moft dangerous feafon of the year, and arrived at the coaft 
of Caramania, with an intention of traverfing Afia Minor, 
As the Enelifh and Algerines infefted the Levant feas, we 
had with us effects too valuable to be expofed to danger, 
This voyage was lefs fatal to Bruguiere, and will be highly 
valuable to botanifts; for, befides various kinds of feeds, 
they will fee the fruit of the wild plum, which we found 
very, common in Iconium, as far as the environs of Mount 
Olympus. This tree does not differ from the cultivated. 
Its fruit, a little larger than the Damaicus plum, is yellow- 
ith, with a greater or lefs tinge of red. It is tartith, fome- 
what four when not fully ripe, butin other refpeéts perfectly 
fimilar to our {mall white plums. 
During the forced ftay, which we were in fome meafure 
obliged to make at Conftantinople, to arrange our fcattered col- 
~ le&ion, and to wait for a fafe conveyance, Bruguiere recover- 
ed, if not his former looks, at Jeaft a pretty good fiate of health. 
Our voyage to Athens, and afterwards to Corfy acrofs the 
iftthmus ag Corinth, and as far as Ancona, was very agree- 
able, becaufe we had fer fellow-travellers men of intelligence. 
1 accompanied the collection as far as Milan, from which 
J difpatched it to Paris. It will no doubt be fuperfluous ta 
enumerate to you the very valuable objects which IT have 
procured, confifting of feeds, fruits, drugs, plants, quadru- 
peds, reptiles, infects, &e. *-, 
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