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Vessell I can send, at present the Porpoise is gone to the Society Islands in quest of Salt Pork & the other Colonial Vessells cannot be spared, neither until then I must be [indecipherable]. If they were at [indecipherable] --- However it is an object of too much consequence to [indecipherable] or [indecipherable] --- I should have sent you a Copy of the Charts from the Lady Nelsons last voyage, but as I have requested the Admiralty & Sect of State to allow them to be printed until Flinders can complete & arrange his journeys, I hope you will have some discretion therein --- This is [indecipherable] still more necessary from the information I have received from a Vessell that has returned here from sealing after being four months about Inspector of which time they were in a very snug [?] place on the West side of King's Island filling with prime seal skins & Elephant Eye - During the time they lay at that anchorage they made a very satisfactory sketch of all the Eastern Coast of the Island, which completes the whole Island as Mr Murray had examined the east, North & part of the South sides