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mamiscripl but living letters. The first may be short, but 

 the latter will be longer and yet more agreeable. Mr. 

 Bartram 1 believe you will find to be at least twenty folio 

 pages, large paper, well filled, on the subjects of botany, 

 fossils, husbandry, and the first creation. This Mr. AlHson 

 has as many or more, on agriculture, philosophy, your own 

 catholic divinity, and various other points of learning, 

 equally useful and engaging. Read them both. 'Twill 

 take you at least a week ; and then answer, by sending me 

 two of the like kind, or by coming yourself. If you fail of 

 this, I shall think I have overbalanced my epistolary ac- 

 count, and that you will be in my debt as a correspondent, 

 for at least a twelve month to come. 



I remember with pleasure the cheerful hours I enjoyed 

 last winter in your company, and would with all my heart 

 give any ten of the thick old folios that stand on the shelves 

 before me, for a little book of the stories you then told with 

 so much propriety and humour. Adieu, my dear friend, 

 and believe me ever Yours affectionately, 



B. FRANKLIN. 



Dr. Elliot. 



P. S. — The piece of iron ore you mentioned in yours of 

 April 10, never came to hand. I forgot to mention, that 

 the bearer, Mr. Alhson, is Rector of our Academy, and my 

 particular friend. He is on a journey northward for 

 health. 



INTELLIGENCE AND MISCELLANIES. 



I. Foreign. 

 (From a Correspondent.) 



Prices of some minerals in London. — On looking over a 

 marked catalogue of a sale by auction, of minerals in Lon- 

 don, 1 was induced to copy a few items, which I send for 

 your valuable Journal, as in this country, we often hear, 

 even good mineralogists, express great surprise at the price 



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