TO SMYRNA. J 
the weight China was divided in i catche, which con- 
tains 1 6 teel ; i reel i o mees ; i mees i o candrin ; i can- 
drin io caas. A catche is equal to 1 41b. A hundred 
catche make 1421b. The common money weight 
contains 50 teel in China, which make 3 catche and 
2 teel. A Spanilh piece of eight contains 7 mees and 
4 candrin. On comparing it with the medical weights, 
I find that 1 ounce is equal to 8 mees. 
I was not a little glad to meet two more perfons 
from the Eaft-Indies the ill of September. They 
were clergymen, and had returned this year; Mr. 
d horen in the Ihip Freden, and Mr. Hiortberg in 
t ^ e Hoppet. They had both, befides the duty 
of their office, purfued the lludy of natural hiftory, 
agreeable to their inftruclions from the directors 
of the Eall-India company, which they performed 
with honour and applaule. Mr. Hiortberg was 
now bufy in finilhing his journal ; he could 
draw, which made it an eafy matter for him to 
adorn his book with the figures of what he had feen 
in natural hiftory. He had in particular chofen 
lhes, and hath made fame fine obfervations and 
figures of them, but efpecially on the Hound-filh 
(Squalus Acanthis) Scomber Duftor, and Remora 
(Echeneis). He had likewife collected fome infefts 
and vermes. He promifed to prefent the whole to 
the Royal Swedilh Academy of Sciences. Mr.Tho- 
ren has ftiewn himfelf in botany a worthy difciple 
ci his mailer I)r. Linnaeus. His collection of plants 
^ Va j^ a *d to be very confiderable, which he had air 
u.ady delivered to Mr. Lagerftroem, who lent it to 
r - Linnmus, by him to be made public, to the ho- 
nour of the collector and pleaffire of the lovers of 
nature. 
Ihe 2d of September I fawfeveral natural curi* 
Pities from Eall-India and China, at Mr. Lager* 
U'cem s, one of the Directors of the Eall-India com,- 
B 4 pany. 
