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your translation will be good, and well received 

 by the public. Your plates also are very well en- 

 graven. Receive my acknowledgments for the 

 copy you are so kind as to destine for me ; but 

 permit me, at the same time, to subscribe for 

 other three, which you may send me, unbound, 

 by means of Mr Macgowan, who ought also to 

 transmit me a pair of Adams's globes, when the 

 last discoveries of Captain Cook are engraven on 

 them. Mr Lumisden will transmit to Mr Mac- 

 gowan the price of the copies I ask, and will 

 likewise take the trouble of sending the bound 

 copy which you are so kind as to offer me. 



" I perceive, Sir, that your translation is to 

 comprehend only what I have inserted in the first 

 fifteen volumes in quarto, and the supplementary 

 volume to the History of Quadrupeds. To this 

 last volume there is to be a second part, which 

 will be as large as the first. The plates, to the 

 number of seventy, are actually engraven for it ; 

 and I intend putting it to press in the course of 

 this summer. The chief animals to be included 

 in this volume are the tapir, the gnou, the nilgau, 

 male and female, the antelopes, several gazelles 

 and goats, the musk, the lama, the vicuna, the 

 small and large jerboas, &c. and a considerable 

 number of* monkeys. Most of these animals 

 have come to hand since the publication of the 

 other volumes; and as soon as this volume is 

 printed, I shall have the honour of sending you 

 the first copy. I would cheerfully have commu- 

 nicated to you all my notices, if I had not 



