Letter received by Banks from Philip Gidley King, July 1803 (Series 39.085) - No. 0003

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our object of consideration, particularly if Flinders takes the Bridgewater safe through

We are going on preparing timber for the next Ship which we hourly expect to see, near upwards of Two hundred large Beams, Knees & other heavy Scantlings is cut down & a great part of it prepared - I hope the plants I sent by the Glatton got home safe I am sure it will not be the Mans fault that I sent in charge of them - if they fail - //

The late reduction of a company of the New South Wales Corps & the offer of their being settlers has enabled me to begin Settling in the Nepean & descending the Hawksbury, the form of both these Rivers as far as we go on Settling them are totally different from what the existing charts make them, & as we have greatly explored all the Space between the Hawksbury Road & the Nepean as well as several other situations the prejudice that was so early made & persisted in [indecipherable], is now done away, respecting the Country not being watered, as I do not suppose there is a Country in the World better watered for Agricultural & grazing purposes -
From the late excursions in the Mountains of which you received the Chart & Journal from Mr Barrallier it appears there are among them at a considerable distance some Plains of small Extent, with  rapid Streams of water running through them to the North Still [indecipherable] is the River they empty themselves into? This still remains among the desiderata