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December 10th 1791. Sydney. New South Wales
Sir
I have put on board H:M: ship Gorgon sixty tubs of plants all in very good health. The tubs are numbered with red paint and marked with the King's L. The plants are numbered as in the inclosed list answering to the respective specimens and seeds. The seeds and specimens are carefully packed in a box marked No. 2. The same box contains two accurate drawings of No. 16 and 10 and a specimen of stone. If any of the plants die or specimens get damaged pleas [please] Sir to remit their numbers and I will replace them the first opportunity. By next conveyance I think I shall be able to enrich your collection Sir not with the vegetable only but the other two Kingdoms of Nature likewise. In this collection I have only been able to class the plants a more minute description could not be given the variety was so great and the time short. If I have made any mistakes I hope your goodness will excuse it.
The Surveyor General of this Colony has requested Governor Phillips by letter and begs his Excellency to represent to His Majesty's Ministers that by reason of his age and bad state of health he is no longer able to execute the duties of his office
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