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Sydney Cove July 2 1788
Dear Sir
I have the pleasure of sending you some Seeds & would gladly have sent a larger quantity, but the person employed, either neglected collecting them at the proper time, or we were too late in the Season. In the Kanguroo which is stuffed, not to alarm Lady Banks, you will observe the feet to be different, to what is described in your Voyage. These Animals are very numerous, but after being fired at grow very shy. The Stone wch: I send on account of the appearance of Metal & the Ochre, were found in the bed of a river, which in the Rainy Season runs thro. a Slate quarry. The Slate is (according to the information of a Slater) not fitt for any use, as it is rotten & will not Split, for the Skin of a
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