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©r Moses Grire- 
FITH, 
OF OM YCMLAT BRAG Yom BE: 
thé novelty and variety of the fubjects. I was induced to pre- 
fer that of Judia, from my acquaintance with Fohn Gideon Loten, 
efq. who had lone been a governor in more than one of the 
Dutch lands in the Indian ocean, and with a laudable zeal had 
employed feveral moft accurate artifts in delineating, on the 
fpot, the birds, and other fubjeéts of natural hiftory. He offered 
to me the ufe of them, in a manner that fhewed his hberal turn. 
Twelve plates, in fmall folio, were engraven at the joint ex- 
pence of fir fofeph Banks, Mr. Loten, and myfelf; to which I 
added defcriptions and little effays. I forget how the work 
ceafed to proceed; but remember that, at my perfuafion, the 
plates were beftowed on doctor Fohn Reimbold Forfter, together 
with three more engraven at my own expence. Thefe he took 
with him into Germany, faithfully tranflated the letter-prefs into 
Latin and German, and added a moft ingenious differtation on 
the climate, winds, and foil of Jvdia, and another on the birds of 
Paradife and the Phenix, all which he publifhed at Halle, in 
Saxony, in 1781. 
In the fpring of this year I acquired that treafure, Mofs 
Griffith, born April 6th, 1749, at Trygain-bou/e, in the parifh of 
Bryn Groer, in Llein, in Caernarvonfhire, defcended from very poor 
parents, and without any other inftruction than that of reading 
and writing. He early took tothe ufe of his pencil, and, during 
his long fervice with me, has diftinguifhed himfelf as.a good and 
faithful fervant, and able artift; he can engrave, and he is toler- 
ably {killed in mufic. He accompanied me in all my journies, 
except that of the prefent year. The public may thank him 
for numberlefs fcenes and antiquities, which would otherwife 
have remained probably for ever concealed.. 
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