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that is your journal in Latin, with notes to it containing the 

 places where you hath found so many curious pieces [articles], 

 which realyare an ornament to my Supellea, particular your 

 great River shells. I got also your letter of the 24 of January 

 1750, with the fine drawing of the gape at the blew mountains, 

 which indeed is very curious. It is now the 26[th] of June, when 

 Dr. Thomson acquaint me of his going to London. So I take this 

 opportunity to send to you a copy of my Index, and also a copy 

 of the Bibliotheca Botanica of Linneus, lately printed at Am- 

 sterdam, much enlarged and in better order, than the first edition. 

 It is pity we had not, before this Bibliotheca was printed, your 

 journey [al], else you would have hath a place in it at the 163 

 page, under this title 



"PENSTLVANIA 



"BARTRAM Johannes 



" Observationes in itinere ex pensilvania in canadam 

 Lond. 1 75 1, oct. pag. 79 tab. i. fig. 2 

 "You have realy obliged the world with such curious observa- 

 tions, as you have [made in] most every page. What hath been 

 a great work about 50 years ago (3) to find out the place where 

 the Ninzi [Ginseng] is growing, which you have discovered so 

 easily. It was to be wished that all Travelers hath been so 

 currious about the nature of the ground, as you have showed. 

 "Linneus has printed his Philosophia Botanica, which I expect 

 with the first ship from Sweden. He wrote to me that they have 

 sent a Learned Botanist to China, and another to the Holy Land, 

 to discover plants. So that in few years the garden at Upsal 

 will be the finest of all. [if they had more sun and a milder 

 climate.] 



"I sent at this occasion to you few specimens of dryed fishes, to 

 be kept as plants in an Herbarius; the great misfortune is, that 

 the colour perish; else it shows a good way to find out their 

 characters i. by nummer of the bones in the membrana bran- 

 chiostega, which you see in flying Trigla marked with blak; 2. by 

 the nummer and position of the Fins, and the bones in them. 

 3. by the Course of the linea lateralis running in each fish from 

 the bak part of the head to the tail. Hebenskeit a professor at 



