[140 — To Henry Drury]

Constantinople, June 17, 1810.

[Though]

I wrote to you so recently, I break in upon you again to congratulate you on a child being born

[1]

, as a letter from Hodgson apprizes me of that event, in which I rejoice.

I am just come from an expedition through the Bosphorus to the Black Sea and the Cyanean Symplegades, up which last I scrambled with as great risk as ever the Argonauts escaped in their hoy.

[You]

remember the beginning of the nurse's dole in the

Medea