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plants, they were marked according to their goodness, & a plant of the bush, or true Ipecacuhane, was also sent in Spirits, they were in charge of a Mr. Moreton, who left England as Master of the Sirius, I never heard that you received them.

The Chapter of accidents which has never yet been favorable to this Colony, has not been more so to our Whalers, for since they have been on the Coast, the weather has been worse, and more unsettled, than I have ever known it. Two ships killed Seven Spermaceti, & only saved two from the badness of the weather, those fish were killed the day after they left this harbour & for a more than a week, during all which time several thousand fish were in sight, they never could 

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