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pasture about E'. or EbS. 20 Miles - but this I shall be better able to ascertain by Observations for the Latitude, as upon these excursions in the Winter when the Suns Altitde: is not too great to be measurd by a Sextant & Artificial Horizon, I generally Carry those instruments with me
I have Just mentiond this Coal discovery in a Postscript of one of My letters to the Duke of Portland. -
I am most respectfully
Dr. Sir
Your Obed. & faithfull
humble Servant
Jno: Hunter
I had almost forgot to say that the persons who went to Search for the Coal, were led by a Native to the place where lay the remains of the two Men whom I had sent after on the Arrival of this first people, one had his Scull Much fracturd. No doubt Murderd by the Natives.