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Huntington Library, RS 138. Not previously published.
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The Printer has sent me a proof xxxx xxxx straight thro the post
against all fitness, & I inclose it to you because it belongs to the most amusing chapter in the volume,
There will be so much to alter & so much to add that I do not think this map ought to serve.xxxxx knuckle of the shoulder
of mutton, just below the Plata ([MS torn] of which I have no business) for the sake of increasing the scale? – I will correct as many
of these names as I can, & the return of the map, – thxx xxx that they may be inserted in my outline; – it will
xx be easier then to add the rest. But it must travel to my
Uncle, for his mss. maps will enable him to correct many which more than I can do. – The different tribes must be
marked in their situations – how will it be best to distinguish them? a + will be the fit mark for a Missionary settlement. Maps of the
several Captainships x xxx <had better> not be given, unless I could give xxxxxx all – & how many my Uncle has I do not know. If he writes a statistic account of Brazil that
will be a fitter place for them.
We gain nearly a third by cutting off the knuckle. There is no occasion to fear any thing more than the few principal towns N. & E. of Brazil & Paraguay, – with the rivers & mountains.
I have written to Bedford to review the Cid,xx will do it quite as well as it would otherwise be done, – & as for any points of Spanish information he may
apply to his in that respect – better. – Do if it be possible let Aaron hunt
out Dobrizhoffer, he says he has corrected many errors on his maps, – & he is to be believed for the confession which immediately
follows – that very likely; his own may in other points require correction also. But I think he is more to be relied upon than most his
brethren, being a far abler man.
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