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_ Largo 
take notice im’ your fir to) 4*s*ern, 
My kind fervice to your fifter ; I thank 
her for ftaying with you, and pray write 
me word particularly how it is with you 
and the babies. Be bufy in planting of 
trees this feafon, and have acare of your- 
felf, and what you have of mine; fo my 
deareft life adieu. 
Hamburgh, 20 Fanuary, 1691-2. 
{ Here follows a defcription of the keys by 
which the letter was decyphered. ] 
For the Right Honorable the Earl of Not- 
tingham. 
Oxford, January 19, 1691-2. 
MY LORD, 
I reTuRN with this, what I tran- 
feribed with your Lordthip’s letter 
of January 14, by the laft poft fave 
one. I find it is written by a Scotchman, 
but who hath, I fuppofe, fpent much of 
his time in England. It is pretended to 
be written from Hamburgh, but is, in- 
deed, from Paris, or fome place in France. 
There is not much of it in cipher, but 
that little which is in cipher, is in_three 
feveral ciphers, if not four; or, if you 
pleafe, fo many feveral keys, which are 
ufed promifcuoufly, (fome for one word, 
fome for another,) with a private mark, 
which is to be ufed in each word, where- 
by the fame letters do in different places, 
fignify differently, and with many nulls. 
Idid not think it neceffary to fend a tran- 
fcript of the whole (becauie there is io 
little of it in cipher ;) nov have I inter- 
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lined the deciphering, (bécaufe I would 
not deface the original ;) but the words 
in cipher are to be read, and in fuch or- 
deras is underwritten, by, my Lord, your 
honour’svery humble fervant, = 
Jouon Watuts. 
Queen I 
King King 
Aran’smarige Queen 
King + Me 
Aran Aran 
Medleing (with) 
Melfoit> Arel 
Aran Largo 
Arol Largo. 
In the foregoing extraéts we have {pe 
cimens of the wonderful powers of ima- 
gination and judgment, and the unwea- 
ried and undivided attention with which 
Dr. Wallis, for a courfe of many years, 
contributed his talents to the fervice of 
Government.  Thofe that we fubjoin 
difplay the character of courtiers—the 
fame in all ages; and the manner in 
which they were treated by a man of ge- 
_nius, fenfible of his own merit, and of 
their ufual artifices, but urging his ciaim 
with temper and dignity, and never ex- 
ceeding the bounds of delicacy, good- 
manners, and even what may juftly be 
termed in him very great medefty :— 
to claim fome recompence for his hard 
labour, was evidently a duty which the 
Doctor owed to his family, and fuch hg 
himfelf confidered it to be. | . 
— 
THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF 
FRANCE.: 
EXTRACT of a MEMOIR Of CIT. VASTEL, 
tt GERMINATION, and of the REPORT 
made te the insrivU rs 67 this, MEMOIR 
by CLTIZENS THOUIN, DESFONTAINE, 
and LABILLARDIERE. 
HE obje& cf this labour is to de- 
termine to what point the cotyle- 
dons, the radicuie, and the plumula, are 
neceflary or ufeful the one tothe other, at 
the time of germination. - 
1. Citizen Vaite} has obferved, that cer- 
tain haricots (Freach or kidney -beans) 
from which he had’taken one of the'coty-_~ 
Jedcns, grew and fpread nearly as. well as 
thofe which had retained them-both. The 
commiffaries have repeated this exneri- 
n ent with fuccefs on common kesns and 
haricots, and without fuccefs on lupines. 
They have, moreover, fown feeds of 
beans, trom which they had cut out a co- 
telydon, and whofe radicule and plumula 
they had cut in two; thefe feeds have 
{prouted, the ftalk reached fix decime= 
tres in height, and in the. bottom was 
remarked a cicatrice of fifteen m.Jime- 
tres in leng:h. ‘The fame experiment has 
not fucceeded on maize or Indian wheat. 
2. Citizen Vaftel has been enabled to- 
rear; on moift mots, fome peafe, from 
which he took away the co yledons as foon 
asthe plumula began to ‘blow; anc, 
what is mere remarkable, fone embryos 
of haricots, deprived, from their origin, 
of the:r cotyledons. Thefe plants were 
fmaller than ufual, and have vegetated 
many months. The firft of thefe expe- 
riments had been already made by Bon- 
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