LETTERS. 441 
J n the Faculty of Phyficians, after he was appoint- 
ed Profeffor of Chemiilry. I conjedture, it is one 
of my companions. 
Mr. Rydelius is alfo very curious, and what 
is moil material, as it happens fo feldom, his at- 
tention is to Natural Hiftory, This is plain 
from by his colledtion of birds, which is the beft 
in the Levant, and will in a few days be encreaf- 
ed with divers rare birds from ^Ethiopia, Nubia, 
and Arabia •, thofe I find here, I (hall fend alive to 
Smyrna, after I have kept them a long time with 
me, to learn and obferve their nature and manner 
of living, and defcribed them. Amongft thefe is 
the beautiful Guiney hen , which I have got from 
Abyfiinia, a bird, greatly to be admired for the 
regular manner in which the feathers are marked, 
with its creft or comb on the head, and for its 
ihrill creaking voice, which is fo piercing, that I 
thought I felt it affedting me in my very brain, in 
the fame manner, as certain harfli notes on fome in- 
ftruments, ftrung with wire. It would certainly be 
admired in Europe, if it had not the misfortune, 
like the Peacock, to be already common, efpecially 
in Malta and France. In time, fome of them ma^ 
come to Sweden, if fortune will favour their journey'. 
Cyprus, Auguft 8, 1757. 
1 HAVE now the honour to write from Cy- 
prus, where I arrived a few days ago, having 
travelled through Judea, part of .Arabia Petrerg 
Samaria, Galilee and great part of Syria. 
A s there is a veflel going this day for Mar- 
feilles, I embrace the opportunity, of (hewing my 
duty to you, by writing this letter, though I ‘have 
no time to tranfmit any of my obfervations. I 
cannot, however, but mention the Quail of the 
B b Israelites ; 
