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Rio de Janeiro

Novr. 1768

while I was ashore I met several of the inhabitants who were very civil to me taking me to their houses where I bought of them stock for the ship tolerably cheap a porker midlingly fat for 11 shill a muscovy duck something under two shils &c.

The countrey where I saw it abounded with vast variety of Plants & animals mostly such as have not been describd by our naturalists as so few have had an opportunity of coming here indeed no one that I know of even tolerably curious has been here since Marcgrave & Piso about the year 1640 so it is easy to guess the state in which the nat hist of such a countrey must be

To give a Cataloge of what I found would be a trouble very little to the purpose as every particular is mentiond in the general catalogues of this place I cannot however help mentioning some

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