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those ill this New World, the letter seems of suffHicnt interest 

 for publication. 



The words or phrases indicated in the printed copy in [ ] 

 represent insertions by some one other than Gronovius, and I 

 am informed by Mr. John W. Jordan, librarian of the Historical 

 Society of Pennsylvania, that the handwriting of these insertions 

 is probably Peter Collinson's. 



Four other letters from Gronovius to Bartram, the originals 

 of which are now in the possession of the Historical Society of 

 Pennsylvania, have been published in the Memorials of Bartram 

 and Marshall (edited by Darlington, Philadelphia, 1849). 



"Mr. Bartram 



(I) 



" Dear Friend 



"It was in Decemb. laste year, that I hath the favour to get a 

 letter from Mr. Collinson, whereby he acquaint me, that he was 

 sending to me your journal. The frost and snow hindered that 

 ships upon the Mase-river could not reach [come] up to Rotter- 

 dam, but were obliged for the Ice to stay two months betwixt 

 the Sea and Rotterdam, which was very tedious for me. But 

 at last I got that journal, written by your own hands, reading 

 it over and over very judiciously, and I don't give it any farther 

 encomium, but refer myself to the preface of your printed journal 

 at London, which I got yesterday from Mr. Collinson, by the 

 care of Mr. Slatter from pensilvania, by whom also I got the 

 favour of your letter dated the 30 of Novemb. 1750. The last 

 war hath spoiled our correspondence for some years, which I 

 hope will now revive. I was forced to make a new edition of my 

 Index, in which I made mention of you in a decent way. That 

 time I hath a prospect to get again some of the goods [curiosities] 

 you sent to me, and Mr. Collinson, by a ship (if I remember well 

 The Queen of Hungary) (2) which was taken by the French or 

 Spanyards, being somme of the things sold at Diepe in France: 

 being all come in the hands of Mr. Jussieu at Paris: but all what I 

 could get bak, were only some seeds. Else I hath [had] a mind 

 to print after my Index a treatise with the Title of Bartramia, 



