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can never be dangerous where it is attended by neither the Symptoms of Spitting, nor pains in the Chest; Yet nothwithstanding these favorable opinions his disorder has been sufficient to prevent his making any progress in his Art for these last six months, I have been afraid to let him draw much, lest sitting & bending forward should oppress his lungs, I have been no less afraid to employ him in Modelling because he might have taken Cold from the wet Clay, so that we have gone on doing so little that it only served to keep up what he knew already without adding to the stock; I therefore thought with the advice of D:^r Latham that he would do well to try the effect of his native Air for the rest of the Summer to confirm his Constitution & then if any Symptom of the disorder remains that he should continue where he is till next Spring because he certainly would be liable to as dangerous colds the ensuing winter as he was last shold he come into the atmosphere of larger blocks of Marble & Masses of wet Clay at that Season, in short if his Lungs are so tender I cannot think our profession fit for him in which he will be continually liable to attacks from cold, whilst I shall