4 oS LETTERS, 
pany with the Armenian Patriarch from Jerufalem, 
who is here at prefent. The journey I have (till 
to make requires more money than I imagined, if 
I accomplilh the purpofe I intended. I think it 
would be a great pity, that a matter of fuch con- 
fequence, which has fo far been purfued, fhould be 
dropped for want of money. I will anfwer for it* 
that with a little addition of money, and the affift- 
ance of the Almighty, the natural Hiftory of Pa- 
leftine, and the adjacent places, fhall be as well 
known, as that of any country, except Sweden. If 
my money would permit, I could take a fervant 
with me from this place, who might be my Inter- 
preter, and without one, I Ihall lole many fair op- 
portunities of informations, in places where they 
don’t fpeak fo many European languages as in 
Smyrna-, but there are befides other neceflary 
expences in thofe places, without which I cannot 
advance a ftep. 
I hope to have a fine collection of living and dead 
natural curiofities, by the time I intend to return 
home. Mr. Rydelius, our Conful, hath promifed 
me fome living pheafants, of incomparable beauty, 
from the borders of Perfia : a kind of patridges 
called Francolins, which are not defcribed in the 
Syftema Naturae, fome turtle doves, and a Pelican 
preferved ; I know a method of getting a living 
rock goat, befides a number of known and un- 
known fifhes, birds and plants, which I have alrea- 
dy got, and fhall hereafter collect. 
Smyrna, January 29', 1750- 
I WAS this moment informed of a veflePs going 
to Europe, and therefore muft not omit the op' 
portunity of writing to you. 
I am 
