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I hope no carping Cur will cast any Censure on him respecting the Investigators bottom getting home after the entire Ship was condemned here. Should it be so 'twill will be an act of great Injustice for there is not a doubt but her upper Works would have been separated from her bends, had she gone again to Sea in her then State; & every person must be convinced how ineligible she was to prosecute the Survey in her reduced State if he had waited till then could have undergone the alterations that have been made to her. You will have heard that another Ship the Nancy of 400 tons has been lost in attempting this passage of Torres Straits, I send you the Masters protest - As Flinders may like to see it. Except the West Coast & particularly Dampiers opening I do not conceive there are many other objects to attain, either to gratify the Navigator or the Accompanying Naturalist but of this I must yield to superior judgement. If any place about Torres Strait was settled so as to place Buoys & Sea Pilots it certainly would be an expeditious route into the Indian from the Pacific ocean, but until that is the case, I fear the Intricacy of the Chanel will be a bar to that route being followed.
I thought I had in my different letters informed you that the Specimens of Linnen I have sent you was made from the European Flax Seed. You gratify me much by the