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more at a man’s outside than his inside. For these and other reasons, 
pray go very clean, neat, and handsomely dressed, ito Virginia. Never 
mind thy clothes: I will send more another year.”—p. 8 
The following postscript to a later letter leads one to infer that 
the plant collector hardly needed this advice. 
“One thing I forgot to mention before, and what very much surprises 
me, to find thee, who art a philosopher, prouder than | am. y cap, 
it is true, had a small hole or two on the border; but the lining was 
new. Instead of giving it away, I wish thee had sent it to me back 
again. i would have served me two or three years, to have worn in 
the country, in rainy weather.”—p. 114. 
The following reminds us of a similar and equally explicit let- 
ter of Collinson’s to Linnzus himself, published in the Linnean 
cal 
embarrass and perplex the study of botany. As to his system, on 
which they are founded, botanists are not agreed about it. few 
like it. Be that as it will ha is certainly a very iat ee man, and a 
great naturalist. As t were not in our mother tongue, was the 
wu reason I did not wand. ‘tia to thee. I! hope not to be forgetful for 
e future.”—p. 106. 
It would seem oo” a was the first to send the Ameri- 
can Ginseng to 
“T sent some thokelif roots to China. If they sell well, a good 
ronan Be ie may be carried on. In the mean time sow the seed, 
raise a stalk to furnish my friend, when he returns. Keep that a 
sabre and raise what thee canst: for I have an opinion it will turn to 
Tae if my friend manages it rightly.”—p. 125. 
well assured it will prove a profitable commodity to China, 
who value it above acyihing: I have compared yen with the Chinese, 
and find them in all respects the same. Your rietor was so ki 
it is American; for if they know that, they are so fanciful it may not 
be so good as their own.” —p. 127. 
The next year brings Bartram another remittance. 
“1 could not omit sending thee the above-mentioned £20 10s. by 
Captain Wright, who is a most obliging man, and he knows thee, and 
perhaps may give the carriage, though I shall not receive the money 
this twelvemonth, nay, I have now some standing two years ; for it is 
very hard getting money of great pes though [ give them my labor 
and pains into the bargain. They are glad of the cargo, but are apt 
to forget all the rest. They give good words, but that will not always 
3 but for t thy sake, and if it will but contribute to keep thee in thy 
