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Letter text
New York June 13. 1790.
Dear Sir
An indisposition of several weeks has prevented my sooner acknowledging the receipt of your favor of Apr. 22. – the bookseller whom I have employed at Strasburgh always is Armand Koenig. A Biographical dictionary to which I have been obliged to have recourse for information about Phlegon, authorises me to inform you of these circumstances relative to him. he was surnamed Trallion, from a city in Lydia, & a freed-man of Adrian. there remains nothing of his at present but a treatise on those who have been long-lived, & another on wonderful things. the best edition of these fragments of Phlegon is that given by Meursius at Leyden in 1622. in 4to. Gr. & Lat. with notes. he lived to the 156th year of the Christian era. the author adds 'it is pretended that he spoke in the 13th. & 14th. books of his Olympiads of the darkness which happened at the death of our Saviour. Eusebius in his chronicle relates his words.' – I inclose a few seeds of high-land rice which was gathered the last autumn in the East Indies. if well attended to, it may not be too late to sow & mature it after you shall receive it. I have sowed a few seeds in earthen pots. it is a most precious thing if we can save it. – the house of representatives have voted to remove to
PhiladelphiaBaltimore. it is doubted whether the Senate will concur. perhaps it may end in a removal to Philadelphia. Adieu my Dear Siryours affectionately