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Sir
By not knowing whether the present letter, will be quickly communicated, causes me to write only a few lines. I sent two letters directed to you by the Porpoise, but as she has been wrecked, I cannot tell whether they are safe or not. Since I wrote them I have got two good skins of 2 species of small kangaroos; the larger one is called by the Natives Bet'ong, the smaller Wer'ra. This last has its tail ending in a slender tapering point, and slightly curled upwards.
I expect shortly to get some other distinct species, & the 2 other animals that you so much want. There has lately been brought to the Governor & the Col. Patterson, some animals that have long been talked of. They are called (by the natives where they are caught) Co'la. The spring is now commencing very fast, & I shall shortly visit the Blue Mountains. After the normal shrubs have done flowering I mean to go a long journey, merely on the purpose to say that I have been farther inland than any other person. I shall engage 2 men to go with me, and shall spare neither trouble nor expense in endeavouring to compleat this idea that has so long been the object of my mind. I shall set of from Richmond