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to get a parcel of them here. Are there any people upon
the island who make it their business to hunt for them
and keep little collections by them? If any thing that
will make any sort of figure can be got for the value
of half a guinea or so, I wish you would get it
and send it forthwith to LdShelburne House Berkeley
Square — Carriage & Porterage let him pay for: I shall in that case be generous & make him a present of it, if it
should exceed that, then only write me word about it,
mentioning the particulars and the price. All this supposes
that either you would have no objection to take a
trip over thither yourself, or that you have access to somebody
else who has occasion to go thither. In short if you
could manage the matter for me in some way or other
you would oblige me Whether the things are scarce
or no, signifies not a straw; for we dont pretend to
understand any thing about the matter: brilliancy, singularity, or
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