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learned, during my travels, to defcribe well the 
produdlions of nature ; I improve every day, and 
if 1 can only in time arrive at a fmall (hare in the 
learning and ingenuity of my great mafter, I will 
not exchange it for the art of the greated Painter. 
No natural curiofities are fo difficult to defcribe, 
as ffiells and corallines, which are here found in 
great plenty, and 1 by no means pafs them over. 
I poflefs in you a friend, who kindly and wifely 
corre&s my errors. I have now a fine bundle of 
defcriptions ; I ffiall fend them over, as foon as I 
can copy them. 
The inclofed, I requeft, you will deliver to Dr.' 
Rofen and Dr. Basok, the King’s Phyficians. I 
have given the former an account of the prefent 
Hate of Phyfic in Smyrna ; the latter of an en- 
demical difeafe in Aleppo ; the copy of thefe I 
fliall have the honour of tranfmitting to you loon. 
In this manner I intend to pay my refpefts to my 
Patrons. 
Smyrna, April 6 . 
I STI LL continue in the place, from which I 
have leveral times had the honour of writing to 
you. I have tarried here longer than I intended, 
for want of a proper opportunity ; but I do not 
repent of my ftay, on account of the opportunity 
I have had of living during a fine fpring, at a 
place fo rich in natural curiofities, as this neigh- 
bourhood of Natolia is. Each day brings to my 
knowledge new things in Botany, and this has 
been the cafe for a month paft ; if I had feveral 
to affift me, we fhould all have enough to do. 
Some time ago, I made a journey in Natolia 
to the town of Magnefia, eight leagues from 
hence. I botanized there on the mount Svpilus 
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