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Hobart Town 26th Jany 1808
Dear Sir
I have much pleasure in informing you that this years harvest is far beyond the last both in Quantity and Quanlity; but little smut being any where discoverable contrary to the predictions of some who pretended to see it in every ear of wheat, I hope what I have sent by the Porpoise will prove serviceable, I have also sent by her two Cygnets of which I request your acceptance they are extremely tame and eating any grain that is given to them I think are more likely to reach England than those when are full grown.
I mentioned in a former letter that I had permitted the Master of the Ship City of Edinburgh upon his application to cut down some of the Timber of this country for masts, Spars etc. Since their departure, I have been informed they had a Bill drawn out purporting to be the expences paid by them for the Masts &c for the use of the Bullocks which I had allowed them to bring them in amounting to the Sum of £640 - whereas the whole amount of their expences was not more than £40. The Bill