450 MICHAEL COLLIN SON [1771 



which I declined ; and I have since introduced Mr. Freeman to 

 Mr. Matthias, and I heard Mr. Matthias assure Mr. Freeman 

 that it should be regularly paid, and that with as little trouble to 

 Mr. Freeman as possible. 



I think myself equally honoured and obliged by your favourable 

 sentiments on my little remarks whilst abroad. I kept a daily 

 journal of what struck me most during the whole expedition, for 

 the advantage of my future memory and hours. 



Your most sensible and pertinent remarks on your important 

 quarter of the globe, I shall beg leave to consider some future 

 opportunity ; for neither my head nor paper will permit me to 

 say more, but that I am, with high esteem and affection, dear sir, 



Very faithfully yours, 



Michael Collinson. 



Manchester Buildings, Aug. 16th, 1771. 



Dear Sir : 



I wrote you, a few weeks since, inclosing the account, as well as 

 I could make it out, and also mentioning that I should duly dis- 

 charge your draft upon me for <200 sterling, which I have since 

 done ; and shall be very glad to settle, as soon as may be, the 

 remainder of an account concerning which I have such uncertain 

 documents to direct me, and in which I have so much to trust to 

 your honour. * * 



I am highly delighted and obliged by your partial comment on 

 my little remarks of Italy, &c. My notes, which I am recopying 

 in order to serve for an occasional retrospect, and to assist my 

 memory hereafter of past scenes, are indeed so multitudinous, that 

 I am, on the revisal, surprised at my past labours, which were in- 

 deed daily, nay, frequently hourly repeated ; as, on such occasions, 

 the memory is too fallible to be depended much on, and I wished 

 in particular to preserve the general idea of the country through 

 which we passed, and the spontaneous productions of it. 



Our route, my dear sir, comprehended a tract of about seven 

 thousand miles, in which there was much to admire and observe. 

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The Orange and Limon and Pomegranate gardens, the last of 

 which is also indigenous everywhere, first made their appearance 

 about Toulon and Nice, and afterwards in greater plenty between 

 Rome and Naples, on the very beach of the Mediterranean Sea : 



