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for Government. A Specimen of the rape is [indecipherable] the Box that Cayley sends you which I have desired may be carefully preserved; It grows with the utmost [indecipherable] & is generally from six to seven feet in height. I have particularly stated [?] this object & suggested the advantage of the convicts here who are not alienated to individually kept in raising that necessary article which might be very advantageously manufactured & sent home in that state, but if that is done cultivation for the public must [indecipherable] except in attending to that object alone which with the ship Timber & Sail Cloth that might be exported from hence would well entitle this Colony to the attention of England. Our sealing & oyling busines also thrives greatly. One Individual has upwards of 380 Tons of Elephant oyl & Twenty Thousand Fur Seal skins, 13500 of which are sent to England by the conveyance that takes this, nor have I a doubt