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himself and therefore offers his service to You. He thinks the whole may be got for 30 or 40£. He was desired to write an answer immediately and therefore I proposed he should desire that the Gardner who is now in Switzerland, may have leave to see the collection and to pick out such alpins as he might think proper - at the above price. This I proposed, by way of gaining time, to have Your orders about it. If you resolve to treat for the whole, for a part or for none let me know by the first post. The letter was wrote by a man who knows something of Gardning & planting, and therefore Dr Pitcairn thinks his opinion may be to depend upon. He calls it a good collection.
The Regatta was well planned and might have been very fine, if God all mighty and