I am now so prodigiously Engagd as well in my publick business
    as on Account of our very great National loss the Death of the
    Prince of Wales that I can only acknowledge the Receipt of thy kind
    Letters with the Tracts Inclosed.
    I have sent per Capt. Richey in the Beulah the
    Magazins for Febuary.
    I am thy sincere friend
   
  
    Prince of a short Illness an Inflammatory Fever Died the 20th
    Universally Lamented. I shall be much obliged at thy Leisure to
    give mee an account of the Numbers of People that annual come over
    for Tenn years past or more. I am Vex’d to see J: Bartrams Journal
    printed with so many Faults. Whiston is greatly to Blame. My Friend
    would have Corrected the press, but to Save a little Trouble of
    sending It, He would do it himself. Thy Experiments when Cave will
    think fitt to Deliver them will appear with More Advantage and Less
    Faults to the publick but there is no Excuseing his Delitoriness
    for all Has been ready for some time past only wants the small
    Engraving of the Instruments in thy first Letter which are but few.
    There is a parcell for Jno. Bartram.