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accompanied the Schooner to the Wreck has not since they left it been heard of; the Master of the Supply undertook the Navigation of this Boat, so that they coud be at no loss to know where they were; a very heavy Gale having blown the day after they left Schoutens Isles, I fear she has founderd, & this Poor Man from a from a desire of being usefull, has beggard a Family of Small Children, thro' his unfortunate fate.
You will receive by the Ship Britannia, Mr. Dennot Master who Sails from hence to China, a Small box of seeds with Specimens of the Plants dryd. You See sir how impossible it is with any degree of Certainty to Send any plants in tubs; all the Ships which are sent here having a long Circuitous Voyage to perform after they leave us, render it next to an impossibility they shoud be taken care of this is the reason we can not send you the Warata so much desird.
I must not Omitt to mention that we have discoverd on the Banks of the Hawkesbury a tree of about from 10 to 18 Unches diameter & which grows to 60 or 70 feet high & appears to be of rapid Growth, the Bark of which I think far Superior