LETTERS. 429 
December, 29, 1750. 
T HE 6th of Iaft Odtober was one of my 
happieft days, as I on that day received both 
your letters, one dated the 27th of February, the 
other the 20th of April, and both forwarded to 
me by Conful Rydelius. 
I at the fame time received Counfellor Carle- 
fon’s bill for 130 ducats in fpecie, which werefent 
me to the Levant. Thefe were agreeable tidings, 
efpecially as the Counfellor was pleafed to add, 
that more might be got. None in Sweden knows 
better than Mr. Carlefon, how expenfive it is to 
live in the Levant, even for thofe, who will live 
mod fparingly, to do which I ufe my beft endea- 
vours. My long ftay in Egypt has coft me mo- 
ney enough; but I fhould never have dared to 
tarry here fo long, if I had not found ocher means 
of fupporting myfelf, than with the public money ; 
an affair for which I am to thank fortune, as I got 
by it an opportunity of accomplifhing my pur- 
pofe, which was to inform myfelf of the Natural 
Hiltory of this remarkable country. Perhaps I 
lhould never have come to Egypt, if I had not 
got this opportunity ; at lead:, 1 could not have 
lived here all the feafons of the year, without which 
little could have been done here, in regard to the 
objects of my enquiries. Next to your kind care, 
I with profound refpeft acknowledge myfelf in- 
debted to the mod reverend Archbilhop’s, the 
Faculties of Divinity and Philofophy, Counfellor 
Carlefon’s, and to the other gentlemen’s bounty, 
who contributed to defray the expences of this 
journey. Wherefore I mod earneftly requeft, that 
you will pleafe to prefent them my mod humble 
thanks, and affure them, that I (hall have no- 
thing more at heart, than to (how to the world, 
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