of John Bartram and Humphry Marshall. 103 
boll rambled in the intense heat of a midday sun. Perhaps it was to 
procure thee a seasoning.””—p. 270 
. lander is a strange, idle man. I cannot get thy spring spe- 
cimens from him, is the reason thou hears nothing from me a 
them.”—p. 271. 
But there is no room to continue these extracts, nor to detail 
the misfortunes of Billy, (William Bartram,) who would be a 
planter upon the St. John’s River, and so get into trouble; nor 
to advert to some curious bits of early information of “some v: 
creatures, with the long teeth or tusks of elephants, but with 
great grinders, belonging to some animal not yet known.” 
Collinson’s last letter to John Bartram is dated July 6th, 1768. 
There is one to his son, Wm. Bartram, relating his continued ex- 
ertions for his benefit, dated the 18th of the same month; and 
he died on the 11th of August, in the 75th year of his age. 
Bartram himself nearly reached his 79th year, and died, as Dr. 
Darlington has ascertained, on the 22d of September, 1777. 
ere is a correspondence with Dr. Fothergill, beginning in 
1744, and continued to 1774. This distinguished physician and 
most benevolent man, took a lively interest in the Bartrams, father 
and son, especially after the decease of Collinson. A single ex- 
tract from a letter of his, in 1769, has some interest from its men- 
tion of a name afterwards so distinguished. 
‘This, perhaps, will be delivered by Dr. Rush, a young man, who 
has employed his time with great diligence and success in prosecuting 
his studies here ; who has led a blameless life, so far as I know; and 
it seems but just that those who have endeavored to deserve Sy good 
character, should have it when it may be of use to them.”’—p. 
Two short letters to Linnaeus are printed from Bartram’s 
draughts, one of which refers to a letter recently received from 
the Swedish botanist. “The letters from Linnzeus to Bartram 
are all missing.” a 
In one of those addressed to the Rev. Jared Eliot, of Killing- 
worth, Connecticut, Bartram gives him a detailed account of his 
mode of splitting rocks, even seventeen feet long, with wedges ; 
— in the very manner now practiced. 
There are few letters from Franklin, between 1757 and 1777. 
In one of them, dated January 7, 1769, he sensibly urges Bar- 
tram to undertake no more long and dangerous peregrinations, at 
his advanced age, but to devote his leisure hours to “‘a work that 
18 much wanted, and which no one besides is so capable of per-' 
forming—I mean the writing the natural history of our country. 
