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APPENDIX. 
I. Tranjlation of a Jhort Extract from a Journal kept by C. P. 
Thunberg, M. D. during his Voyage to , and Rejidence in, the 
Empire of Japan, in a Letter addrejfed to the P ref dent . See 
page 143. 
S I R, 
D URING my fhort refidence in London, where you did me 
the honour of introducing me to many men of learning, 
conventions' frequently arofe, in which queftions were alked of 
me concerning the empire of Japan : to thefe I could at that 
time give anfwers only from memory ; but, having now 
got polTdfion of my papers, I have drawn out, for the farther 
latisfa£lion of the Royal Society, and your particular friends, 
the following fhort extract of a journal which I kept regularly 
during a refidence of fixteen months in that diftant country. 
To you, sir, it is already known, that I was fent out by the 
directors of the Botanic Gardens at Amfterdam, and fome other 
eminent men of that place; frrft to the Cape of Good Hope, and 
from thence to Japan : in order to inveftigate the natural hiftory 
of thofe countries, and to fend from thence feeds and living 
plants of unknown kinds, for the ufe of their collections in 
Holland. At the -fir ft of thefe places I refided three years ; and 
during that time had the good fortune to obferve and defcribe 
many new fpecies both of animals and vegetables. 
I11 the year 1775 I failed from thence for Batavia, and after a 
fhort flay there, embarked on board a Dutch fhip, called Sta- 
venifie, bound for Tapan, in company with the Blyenburg. On 
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