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It is most likely I shall send you some specimens ere long by the return of some of the Whalers, but I can assure you, that the few plants which I collected in the Journey to Mount Banks I am very choice of, for if they are not to be met with in other parts of the country, it is more than probable, that they will remain unknown to you, as I am of opinion, that journies to the above hill are not likely to take place, & particular a botanical one.
I think of returning to England by the first good opportunity, unless some unforeseen likelihood of going to some adjacent parts should present itself. It grieves me to think the great length of time which I have been here, & have done so little; and what still heightens it, is the vigour of my mind that I first set of with, but this was greatly checked by unexpected circumstances as during my first three year residence.
I have now explored the colony in various directions as far as can be done by a single individual, attended with so little expence, as I may term it. No doubt but there are many plants that are confined to a small space of ground, that have escaped my noticed; and on the contrary I well convinced, that had many which I have not met with, been so truly local, they would have fell only into my hands. Travelling by a compass causes one to pass many plants unobserved, by always keeping the bearing in view, & which is almost to be taken every minute, but had not I attended to this circumstance, I could not have crossed such desert trackless parts of the country.