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a new Hermitage. You have sweet weather for your 



Journey. I must go to Oxford on Monday: but must 



return on Saturday. My evergreens have suffered very 



little: Portugal laurels not at all. 



¥»•« affect., 



Gil. White. 



Please to pay the Master of the post chaise in the Borough 

 for my fare to Hounslow: the boy knew nothing of the 

 price, and the people there told him 10 or 12 shillings. 



I have got the register - account from Rogate of our 

 Father's and Mother's marriage, such as it is : but it is 

 very blind. 



To the Rev. John White. -r. ^ i, ,r -.^ if,h,/. 



Fyficld, May 15, 1776. 



Dear Brother, — Brother Thomas and his daughter have 

 been with me for a week: yesterday we all three came 

 down to this place, and found all well. 



As I had got a frank for you, I thought it best to take 

 it down with us, that all that had occasion might make use 

 of it together. 



Forster was presented to his Doctor's degree at Oxford 

 on account of his literary fame; and because he had 

 hazarded his life in a circumnavigation in the pursuit of 

 Natural knowledge. 



Pray write to Linn.; for if he only tells you of your 

 new genera, &c. and affixes no names, he leaves you in 

 the lurch ; direct to him as academician for reasons assigned 

 in a former letter. 



We are glad you find your heavy duty so easy ; for what 

 is paid to curates is all neat money, and occasions con- 

 siderable deductions from a moderate living. 



Holdsworth I have procured ; but I can't say the work 

 gives me so much pleasure as it seems to have afforded 

 you. I did not find so many genuine criticisms drawn 



