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tany during the fummer, and got the good graces 
of every lover and patron of this Science. He pre- 
pared himfelf every day for his Voyage, and the 
Levant Company offered him a free pafiage to 
Smyrna. 
The 7th of Augult he went on board, and ar- 
rived at Smyrna on the 26th of November. It 
was his good fortune to find Mr. Andrew Ryde- 
lius, Conful General from Sweden, at Smyrna, 
who was his countryman and relation, and re- 
ceived him with paternal kindnefs, and forwarded 
his undertaking by every means in his power. He 
Raid in Smyrna all the winter, and beheld all the 
productions of nature in that temperate climate. 
In March 1750, he travelled to Magnefia in Na- 
tolia , viewed mount Sipylus, and returned again 
to the worthy Rydelius in Smyrna. 
In the beginning of May 1750 he left Smyrna, 
travelled by way of Alexandria and Roletta, arriv- 
ed, in July, at Cairo, the capital of Egypt ; here he 
remained near a year, and had the beft op- 
portunities of informing himielf of the Angu- 
larity of the climate for which it has always 
been famous. Here he viewed the Pyramids , 
one of the feven wonders of the world ; de- 
fended into the fepulchres of the Mummies ob- 
ferved the ftrange rifing and falling of the Nile-, 
collefted the fcarceft productions of Nature •, and 
this he did with more attention, than any one 
had done before him. During this time he cor- 
refponded diligently with his friends in Sweden, 
and filled his letters with curious Experiments 
and Obfervaticns, which .were inferted in the 
papers printed twice a week in Stockholm under 
the title of Literary News, and all who read them, 
W ere prepofTeffed in favour of this attentive tra- 
veller. Our Haffelquift therefore was not forgot 
in 
