WILLIAM SMELLIE. 
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your translation will be good, and well received 
by the public. Your plates also are very well en- 
graven. Receive my acknowledgments for the 
copy you are so kind as to destine for me ; but 
permit me, at the same time, to subscribe for 
other three, which you may send me, unbound, 
by means of Mr Macgowan, who ought also to 
transmit me a pair of Adams’s globes, when the 
last discoveries of Captain Cook are engraven on 
them. Mr Lumisden will transmit to Mr Mac- 
gowan the price of the copies I ask, and will 
likewise take the trouble of sending the bound 
copy which you are so kind as to offer me. 
“ 1 perceive, Sir, that your translation is to 
comprehend only what I have inserted in the first 
fifteen volumes in quarto, and the supplementary 
volume to the History of Quadrupeds. To this 
last volume there is to be a second part, which 
will be as large as the first. The plates, to the 
number of seventy, are actually engraven for it ; 
and I intend putting it to press in the course of 
this summer. The chief animals to be included 
in this volume are the tapir, the gnou, the nilgau, 
male and female, the antelopes, several gazelles 
and goats, the musk, the lama, the vicuna, the 
small and large jerboas, &c. and a considerable 
number of monkeys. Most of these animals 
have come to hand since the publication of the 
other volumes; and as soon as this volume is 
printed, I shall have the honour of sending you 
the first copy. I would cheerfully have commu- 
nicated to you all my notices, if I had not 
