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and when you write me, you need only Mention the Number & write the Linnæan Name after it.
I sent you the Indian Axe by Dr Morgan with my conjecture as to its use. Many of those with Pieces of Indian Pottery are dug up, where the aborigines of Jamaica are supposed to have made Settlements.
Dr Hope gave us only the outlines of their method for classing Plants in natural Orders. He proposed publishing them, but put it off since [?]. Is there any Author, who has wrote well on this subject?
There is an American of the name of Barton here, who threatens us with a Flora Pensylvanica. He has no specimens with him, so that his performance must be patch work from Gronovius, Kalm and others.
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