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Dec. 1798
Dear Sir
Allow me to Recommend the bearer George Caley to your notice & your offices he is a young man well versed in Practical Botany & Full of Zeal to make usefull discoveries I [ween?] [which?] are likely to be usefull to the Colony & the Mother Country
I have preferred sending a person of his description to one of a more liberal Education because I think such one as he is will do more on account of the hardyness of his Constitution & his being inured to Fatigue & also will give much less trouble to my Friends in the Colony it is however but very seldom that a person of so little education is found so well Qualified for a literary pursuit
The Government have been so indulgent kind to me as to allow him Returns out of the Public Stores & such other indulgences as their servants receive at the Public expense I myself [defray?] his wages which are fixd according according to his previous Situation in Life at 15/ a week of £40 a year as money is in your Colony so cheep a commodity that I apprehend no one makes use of it I have not furnished him with much on account of the incredible with which money goes to me but you if however he has occasion for any things not in the Kings Stores that can be pursued for him I shall consider myself as much obliged to you if you will furnish him with them & draw upon me for the amount which I shall thankfully [remit?]
He will from time to time have matters to send home to me not of curiosity only but such things also as he thinks likely to be usefull as Raw materials for manufacture I shall trust your good [self?] to provide him with packages the [cost?] of which I will most thankfull repay
To Govr Hunter