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Armstrong describes Collinson's correspondence as, \"vigorous, brisk, and emphatic.\" His letters talk mainly of plants, but there are also antiquities, birds, butterflies, British imperial interests, sheep management in Spain, electricity, weather, fossils, insects, earthquakes, vine culture, Colonial policy, tithes, wars, terrapins, \"an Infalible Remedy for the bite of a Mad Dog,' red Indians, astronomy, the making of salt, cheese fairs, the price of wheat, the power of snakes to charm, the Spanish threat to Florida, geology, French expansion,\" Hints . . . to Incorporate the Germans more with the [Pennsylvania] English. . . , the history of rice growing, premiums to encourage the production of silk, whether swallows migrate or winter-over under water, \"Old Hock\" as a remedy for gout, thundergusts, magnetism, Bezoar stones, \u0026amp; now \u0026amp; then a Quakerly comment. 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