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Sir Joseph Banks, Bart, P.R.S.
London
post paid

I give the Dr. Every possible degree of credit for the Purity of his Intentions & yet I conceive his mind & order the instruction Guidance of some principle which warps his judgment without allowing his Reason to be sensible of the source of his error, he could not otherwise have omitted to add to his Letter the time in which the extraordinary supply of Provisions derivd from the private resources of the Prisoners but above all he could not have omitted to have given due weight to the full scale by men which is that the Dutch Prisoners in the same Prison have no more allowance than the French & are yet in both an experiment which so fully & plainly contradicts all his Theoretical opinions respecting the quantity of Provisions which a man can live upon for a given number of months.  I observe also the appellation of Brave men to the Scotch Rebels & think it smells of [indecipherable].  This letter in my opinion is not deserving of an answer. 

Dr. Currie
June 16, 01

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