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Animals. 
A Vulture with a naked head, deferibed. 
Oftracion , a fifh with a blown up belly, deferibed, 
P apt lio Sultanas, the Sultan Butterfly. 
Mifcellaneous Things. 
Vejfels made of clay, hardened by the heat of the 
fun, for drinking cold liquors, from Mecca and 
Opobalfamum genuimm , or true balfam of Mecca 
Ibfs ; with Carolus Linnaeus wrote in Arabian 
letters. 
They are partly for your table, and partly for 
your Mufeum. For the former I have deftined 
two vefiels of dates, which 1 have had prepared 
in fuch a manner that I hope they will keep. And 
I fhall efteem myfelf happy, if you think the other 
fmall colleftions worthy a place in the latter. 
1 have fent as many feeds, as I have mylelf 
been able to col left from the trees themfelves. I 
wifh they may come fafe, for 1 fee, that it is al- 
moft impoffible to fend trees alive from Egypt to 
Sweden. I have had all the rare trees here taken 
up, and planted in pots, in hopes of fending them 
to you, by way of Marfeilles or Leghorn, but 
they die notwithftanding all imaginable care ; what 
would then become of them during fo long a voy- 
age, their freight would be very expenfive,for water 
is a dear commodity when bought of a failor. 
The wonderful fycamore, the fru&ification of 
which has puzzled me more than any thing I 
have yet feen in Nature. This, I fay, I hope will 
arrive at Upfala ; I have two in readinefs that 
promife well, which I intend to fend by way of 
Marfeilles, addreffed to Mr. Grill. 
I HAVE 
