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bad a correspondent. And I dare venture, now I have given him these 
friendly hints, he will not think me so again; but continue his friendly 
and informing, as well as his entertaining correspondence. 
thought he, had known me better than to Feats anything he aende me 
either lost or neglecte 
* The cranberry shrines wonder oi is in blossom 5 ; every way 
aigresing ats ours, but much large 
** Pray give my thanks to sew. for his two mar In e box, 
with the other thing? I have sont we fine Coder of Lebanon cones, just 
come from then 
“ There isa little token, ina a for Billy, el pretty perfor- 
mance pleases me m 
“Thy account of the frogs is very humorous; but would it not be 
ore so, to import a cargo of them? And had Ia park, or place in- 
land, I would wish it. But as it is, strolling people and boys would 
destroy them. A bull-frog would —— the whole village ; but then 
it would be certainly killed. *—pp. 192, 
On more than one occasion, sadieai altudes to a theory in re- 
spect to petrifactions and the formation of limestone, which he 
had communicated to Dr. Fothergill. Collinson seems not to 
have quite sa tinged it; but Bartram writes,—‘ My dear 
worthy friend, thee can’t bang me out of the notion that lime- 
stone and marble were originally mud, impregnated by a marine 
salt, which I take to be the original of all our terrestrial soils.” 
0. And Collinson afterwards writes, ‘“‘ What shall we say 
to the strata abounding with fossil sea-shells, &c.? Very prob- 
“ig Ah as thou conceives, the sea flowed higher, or once overflowed 
%— py, 237. 
Quite characteristic are Bartram’s remarks in the subjoined ex- 
tract from a letter in January, 1757. 
** Many birds, in their migrations, are observed to go in flocks,—as 
the geese, brants, pigeons, and blackbirds ; others flutter and hop about 
from tree to tree, or upon the ground, feeding backwards and forwards, 
interspersed so that their progressive movement is not commonly ob- 
served. Our blue or rather ash-colored, great —_— and the white 
ones, do not observe a direct i grt: but follow the banks of rivers 
—sometimes flying from one side to the other, as a little back- 
wards, but generally northward, ‘intl al aig be supplied sufficiently 
where there is conveniency of food; for when some arrive at a partic- 
ular place, and find as many there before them as can readily find food, 
some of them move forward, and some stay behind. For all these wild 
creatures, of one species, generally seem of one community; an 
rather than quarrel, will move stilla farther distance, where there is 
more plenty of food—like Abraham and Lot; but most of our domes- 
tic animals are more like their masters: every one contends for his 
own dunghill, and is for driving all off that come to encroach upon 
the }1, 212. 
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Here is a curious letter of Collinson’s; p. 229, in which he re- 
eee: Bartram for “grumbling and complaining, making no 
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