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29th July 1801.
No. 17 Nottingham Place
Dear Sir
I have searchd for & found the account of the journeys which were made into the interior of New South Wales by my direction, & I have considerd it better for enabling you to form your own judgement, to send you The Journals which I had directed might be kept & markd daily, in the language of those who kept them; I wish I had been fortunate enough to have had officers in the Colony who would have volunteerd such excursion, but sorry I am to say that too many of them were employd in a way less to the advantage of the Public Service - old as I am, I was then both able & willing to make such journey, but I was too much anoyd with various matters of less real importance than such journeys & the information they might have afforded were - yet had I continued for a year or two longer, I was ditermind to have attempted it at all risque ---
You will discover that the course or direction by Compass, is marked on the beginning of each day & the miles traveld during the day at the end - altho we may suppose both to be a little incorrect we are notwithstanding able to discover that they have been more than 100 miles to the SW or SW by W. Even if we deduct ¼ from the distance -
Yours faithfully & respectfully
Jno: Hunter
July 30
Sir J. Banks KB