I recd my dear Friend your kind Letter of the 3d Inst. and thank you for the Details it contains relative to your Journey to Calais, tho’ at present they will be of little Service to me.—Your Letter does not I think require any particular Ansr.—Your Observation relative to the Seine Water, may be true when drank as it comes from the River, but when filter’d in our Sand Jars it can hardly have that Inconvenience, being perfectly clear; & tho it remains several Days in the Decanters we do not perceive any sediment from it. I think I have read, or heard in some of the Lectures I have attended, that distill’d Water would be a tastless and even an unwholesome Drink. But of this I am not certain.—Poor Pemija died a few Days after my Letter to you by Mr. West. I have not been able to go to St. G. having been confin’d for this Week past with the Tiles: I am now recover’d in a great Measure, and shall soon ride out there.—We are waiting with great Impatience for a Letter from you about Vessels &ca—I hope you will conclude to accompany us.

Adieu my dear Friend, Remember affectly to your two Brothers in Law, & to Bancroft—& Ridley: But Ridley is I suppose sail’d.—Believe me ever sincerely Yours