1762.] TO MRS. BARTRAM. 427 



letter may be dated from Augustine ; but if we come back to this 

 town, we shall be for writing here. 



However, dear love, in the mean time, I remain thy affectionate 

 husband, 



John Bartram, 



In great haste. 



This town is prettily situate on dry sandy ground, and generally 

 good water. Great ships lie close, too, and safe harbour. 



HENRY BOUQUET* TO JOHN BARTRAM. 



Fort Pitt, 3d February, 1762. 



Dear Sir : 



The gentleman who will have the pleasure to deliver you this, is 

 Lieutenant Brehm, an engineer sent by General Amherst to our 

 most remote posts, to the westward. He has been round Lake 

 Erie, and through Lake Huron, and Lake Michigan. 



I thought it might be agreeable to you to know what nature pro- 

 duces, in those wildernesses ; and though the gentleman had obser- 

 vations of another kind to make, he may perhaps satisfy, in some 

 respects, your curiosity, as you will certainly do his, by the large 

 collection you have in your garden. 



I should be much obliged to you, to send me, at your leisure, a 

 catalogue of trees and plants, peculiar to this country, which are 

 not natural to the soil of Europe ; as I propose to send a collection 

 to a friend, when we have more peaceable times. 



I expected to have had the pleasure to see you, this spring ; but 

 I find I am to be confined here some time longer. 



I am with great truth, dear sir, 



Your obedient humble servant, 



H. Bouquet. 



Fort Pitt, 15th July, 1762. 



Dear Sir : 



I received your letters of May the 3d, and June the 11th, which 



* Henry Bouquet is believed to have been, at the date of this letter, a Colonel 

 in the British Army ; was evidently an intelligent, polite, and obliging gentleman, 

 and ever ready to promote the interests of natural science. He appears subse- 

 quently to have attained to the rank of General, and to have died in the service, 

 in Florida. 



