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1757.] T0 JOHN BARTRAM. 211 



Library Company. It was with great difficulty, and a long time, 

 to do it as well as it is, which is reckoned well done, in comparison 

 with others. 



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I have a great opinion of your new Governor.* He assured me, 

 he went over with a heart full of good-will, and that he would spare 

 no pains to reconcile all parties ; and hoped our friends would de- 

 cline a majority, for the present, in the next assembly, and choose 

 moderate churchmen ; and then he doubted not but to put the pro- 

 vince in such a posture of defence, as to be able to repel your ene- 

 mies ; and John Hunt and Christopher Wilson, are sailed from 

 Bristol, as deputies from the Society, who come over in a spirit of 

 brotherly love, without fee or reward, to restore it amongst you. 

 We rely on good Providence to operate with them, in the restoring 

 love and unity. 



I am thy sincere friend, 



P. Collinson. 



JOHN BARTRAM TO PETER COLLINSON. 



January 22d, 1757. 



Dear Peter : 



I have shipped on the Carolina, Captain Duncan, and consigned 

 to thee, twenty-six boxes ; the first ten, marked on the sides, are 

 for our Governor. * 



Many birds, in their migrations, are observed to go in flocks, 

 as the geese, brants, pigeons, and blackbirds ; others flutter and 

 hop about from tree to tree, or upon the ground, feeding backwards 

 and forwards, interspersed so that their progressive movement is 

 not commonly observed. Our blue, or rather ash-coloured, great 

 herons, and the white ones, do not observe a direct progression, 

 but follow the banks of rivers sometimes flying from one side to 

 the other, sometimes a little backwards, but generally northward, 

 until all places be supplied sufficiently where there is conveniency 

 of food ; for when some arrive at a particular place, and find as 

 many there before them as can readily find food, some of them 



* P. Collinson was under the disagreeable necessity of changing this " opi- 

 nion" at a subsequent period. See his letter, dated April G, 1759. 



