Draft of a letter received by John King, Under-Secretary ofState, from Banks, ca 20 June 1798 (Series 19.03) - No. 0003

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indulgences when he arrives, he will I conclude set up there as a market Gardiner & no doubt become an usefull inhabitant.
So much for my first speculation now for my second which I confess I conceive is of great importance.
We have now posessd the Country of new S. W. more than ten years & so much has the discovery of the interior been neglected that no one article has hitherto been discoverd
by the importation of which as a raw  material the mother Country can receive any degree of Return for the Cost of founding & [indecipherable] maintaining the Colony.
It is impossible to Conceive that such a body of Land as Large as all Europe should does not Produce Large vast Rivers Capable of being navigated into the heart of the Country interior or that if properly investigated that such a country situate in a most Fruitfull Climate should not produce some native Raw material of importance to a manufacturing Country as England is. 
Mr Mungo Park lately Returnd from an inland Journey in africa where he penetrated farther into the inland than any European before has done by several hundred miles & discoverd immence navigable