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till the departure of the indiaman & in the interval will endeavour to select from my papers such botanical information as may be new & acceptable to you.
March 2d.
A relapse in my disorder & the langour consequent to it force me after some fruitless efforts to close this. I am unable to enter upon any business so laborious as that which I had projected for I intended my extensive communication, which I hope returning health may enable me to prosecute. All I can do at present is to send you a specimen of flowers & two or three Nutmegs, the produce of our plantation & I request you will favour me by showing them to Lord Carrington from whom during the time he presided over the board of agriculture I received many polite attentions. I should be glad also that the board may be made acquainted with the success of my labours, but I am unable at present to detail them in a separate letter. I