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printed during that period amounted to one 
thousand three hundred and three. It is there- 
fore probable, that nearly all of them were 
contained in Count Bolter lines Collection. The 
catalogue of this part of his library filled two 
folio volumes. He procured from Paris the 
celebrated work of Theodore de Bn/, a collection 
of voyages, with beautiful wood-cuts : and had 
been at infinite pains to obtain from all countries 
a complete series of Ecclesiastical annals ; these 
already amounted to forty volumes in folio. 
This immense library was divided into six 
distinct classes. His pictures were not so 
numerous ; but they were well chosen. 
The botanic garden, (botany being his fa- Botanic 
vourite pursuit,) contained a green-house, per- Garden - 
haps unequalled in the world. At one end of 
it was a small library of botanical works: 
here he had the advantage of studying with the 
living specimens before him. But the most 
extraordinary circumstance was, that we 
found the plants of the frigid zone, and of 
the warmest climates, flourishing in greater 
beauty than we had seen them possess in a 
state of nature. They were more perfect, 
because they were preserved from all external 
injury, and were at the same time heajthy. 
We asked him how such a variety of plants, 
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