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had left a Letter with Sir George. Yonge in which Letter I was ordered to wait on His Excellency and consult with him about taking Plants from this place it was His advice that I should leave Such plants as I conceived would not live to the end of the Voyage accordingly I left with His Excellency 1 Olive 1 Carrob 1 Filbert 1 English Oak. 1 Ash these are Plants they had not in this Colony. I have moreover [indecipherable] 2 Winter [Bonehreton?] pears 1 [indecipherable] St German 1 Colemar 2 Quinces 2 Peaches, 2 Quince Apples 1 Olive 1 Carrob several vines Walnuts 2 Black Mulberrys Some Chily Strawberrys I shall take from this place Tokay Vines Black and White Fontenicas 80 Raison & Muscat & Constantias do - Black and White Mulberrys willows Tea Plants Chestnuts Oakes. Pines, Oranges Cittrons, Limes, Lemons, Pomgranete. Sage Mint & [indecipherable] . The Hop though it has been here Some years they have now attended to the Cultivation of it I have been creditably informed it has now flowerd with them I have two plants on Board which I have obtained here but they are such Bad ones that I am doubtful of carring them to New South Wales. indeed I brought two alive to this place but they died after we were here a week -
I am Sorry very Sorry to intrude upon your private feelings but your Goodness to me induces me to hope you will be pleased to Pardon the Liberty I take in acquainting you. that during the Passage from England hither I experienced very Severe hardships indeed, in which it gave me pain to behold my wife & Child ample partakers my Cabbin had nearly all the passage from one to four inches of Water in it indeed I often dispaired of every Seeing the end of the voyage and though we were so uncomfortable Setuated all our troubles were agravated a thousand fold by the unfeeling Behaviour Mr. Scott the Commander