LETTERS. 
403 
Dr. H A S S E L CLU I S T’s 
letters. 
To Profeffor 
CHARLES LINNMS, 
Knight of the Polar Star, and firft Phyfician to the King. 
Smyrna, Dec. 16, 1 749 * 
I Never undertook a tafk fo agreeable as the 
prefent, when I have the honour to write to 
you from fo diftant a part of the world, to aflure 
you of my higheft regard and efteem. 
The many favours you have conferred on me, 
and the care you took to forward my journey, give 
me hopes that you will with plealure condefcend 
to receive a detail of what has happened to me 
from my departure to this day, and which I fliall 
now have the honour to give you. 
I came to Smyrna the 27th of laft month, af- 
ter a voyage of fixteen weeks. The fea agreed 
very well with me, though it is not without its in- 
conveniencies ; but by being cautious, and thro 
the bleffing of the Almighty, I have bore all with- 
out receiving any hurt, and am in as good a ltate 
of health at prefent, as I ever have been in my 
life I have never been fick either at home or 
abroad ; I am only forry that a boifterous fea 
took from me all opportunities of feeing many of 
the wonderful works of nature. A filh, which 
fome- 
