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with it than almoft any traveller or botanift now alive. 

 "Upon what reafonable ground then could he fuppofe, upon 

 my bringing to him a rare and elegant fpecies of bauftinia,- 

 which probably he had not before feen, that I could not 

 diftinguifti it from an acacia, of which 1 certainly brought 

 him none ? 



A large fpecies of Mullein likewife, or, as he pleafes to 

 term it, Bouillon Blanc, he has named Verbafcum Abyffini- 

 cum ; and this the unfortunate Mr Bruce, it feems, has called 

 an aromatic herb growing upon the high mountains. I do 

 really believe, that M. de Juffieu is more converfant with 

 the Bouillon Blancs than I am ; my Bouillons are of ano- 

 ther colour ; it muft be the love of French cookery, not Eng- 

 lifh tafle, that would fend a man to range the high moun- 

 tains for aromatic herbs to put in his Bouillon, if the Ver- 

 bafcum had been really one of thefe. 



Although I have fometimes made botany my amufe- 

 ment, I do confefs it never was my ftudy, and I believe from 

 this the fcience has reaped fo much the more benefit. I have 

 reprefented to the eye, with the utmoft attention, by the beft 

 drawings in natural hiftory ever yet publifhed, and to the 

 underftanding in plain Englifh, what I have feen as it ap- 

 peared to me on the fpot, without tacking to it imaginary 

 parts of my own, from preconceived fyftems of what it 

 fhould have been, and thereby creating varieties that never 

 exiftedo, 



When I arrived at the Lazaretto at Marfeilles, the Faren- 

 teit, as it is called in Nubia, or the Guinea- worm, the name 

 it bears in Europe, having been broken by mifmanagement in 



my 



