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the half of all the different parcels and packages that were 

 lying by me, made up for feparate ufes, and pack them fo 

 as they might be fent to Sir William Duncan the king's phy- 

 fician, then in Italy, to be conveyed by him to Lord Roch- 

 fort, fecretary of ftate. I by the fame conveyance accom- 

 panied thefe with a fhort letter, wrote with great difficulty, 

 — that it appearing, beyond leaving room for hope, that my 

 return was to be prevented by an unexpected difeafe, I beg- 

 ged his Majefty to receive thefe as the laft tender of my du- 

 ty to him. 



Michael, who never cared much for botany, at no peri- 

 od was lefs difpofed to give himfelf trouble about it than 

 now ; his mailer, friend, and patron was gone, as he 

 thought ; he was left in a ftrange country ; he knew not & 

 word of the language, nor was he acquainted with one per- 

 fon in Marseilles, for we had not yet ftirred out of the laza- 

 retto. What became of the feeds for a time I believe nei- 

 ther he nor I knew ; but, when he faw my recovery advan- 

 cing, fear of reproof led him to conceal his former negli- 

 gence. He could neither read nor write, fo that the only 

 thing he could do was to put the firft feed that came to 

 hand in the firft envelope, either in parchment or paper, 

 that had writing upon the back of it, and, thus Selected, the 

 feeds came into the hands of M. de Juffieu at Paris. By 

 this operation of Michael, the verbafcum became an aro- 

 matic herb growing en the higheft mountains, and the 

 bauhinia acuminata became an acacia vera. 



Tee pre fent of the drawings of the Abyffinian plants was 



really, as it was firft dengned, a compliment, but it turned out 



juil the contrary, for, in place of expecting the publication 



4 that 



