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fore I suppose you have sent it to him, and that he has honoured 

 it with your name. 



It was not possible for me to comply with your desire, of send- 

 ing you a plant of the Arbor vitce, for it was the 14th of Decem- 

 ber before I returned home from New York. 



All my botanical pleasures have been stopped this summer, while 

 I was at Albany. We durst not go without the fortifications with- 

 out a guard, for fear of having our scalps taken ; and while I was 

 at New York, I was perpetually in company, or upon business, so 

 that I shall be a very dull correspondent. However, I designed 

 to have sent you something of our transactions, by Mr. Franklin, 

 at his return from Boston ; but he stayed so long, that I left New 

 York before he returned ; and I was at last exceedingly hurried, 

 in leaving that place. If I had stayed one day longer, the river 

 had become impassable. 



Now, dear Mr. Bartram, take pity on me, and let me have 

 some share of that pleasure which you receive from your corre- 

 spondents. I have not a line from any, but a short one from Mr. 

 Collinson, of the 3d of August. I expected to have heard from 

 Gronovius, by a ship expected from Amsterdam, and by which I 

 wrote to him ; but I do not hear that she is arrived. I sowed 

 some of the seed of the Arbor vitce, but it failed as yours did. 

 Perhaps they may germinate next year. 



Can you give me no hopes of seeing you, in your rambles next 

 summer, in search of new knowledge of things ? Pray, make my 

 compliments to the good woman, your spouse, and be assured, 

 That I am your affectionate, humble servant, 



Cadwallader Colden. 



DOCTOR FOTHERGILL* TO JOHN BARTRAM. 



London, 22d twelfth month, 1743-4. 



Esteemed Friend John Bartram : 



I think myself highly obliged, in the first place to my friend 



* John Fothergill, an eminent physician and philanthropist, was born at 

 Carr-end, Yorkshire, England, on the 8th March, 1712, of respectable parents, 

 who were members of the Society of Friends. He was educated at Sedberg 

 School, Yorkshire, where he obtained a competent knowledge of the Latin lan- 

 guage, and some acquaintance with the Gireek. About the year 1728, he was 

 apprenticed to an apothecary, at Bradford. After the completion of his appren- 



