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Sir
I am directed by the Governor and Council to acknowledge the Receipt of the following Trees and Plants
Viz:
10 Pots and One Tub of Bread Fruit Plants very fine
12 Do. .................................................... sickly
2 Pots containing 2 Plants of Avees/ Apples
1 Do. ..................4 do. of Rattah / Chestnut
2 Do ................... 5 do. of Ayzah / Jambo
1 Do. .................. 1 do. of Mattee / Ficus
1 Do. ................... 4 do. of Ettow
2 Do. .................. 2 do. of Peeah beside Roots
Timor Plants
1 Pot containing 4 Plants of Nanche / Soursop
1 Do. .................. 1 Do. ...... Lemon China
1 Do. ................... 2 Do. ....... Jambo Mare
1 Do. ................... 4 Do. ....... Jambo armariah
1 Do. ................... 2 Do. ....... Mango
1 Do. ................... 2 Do. ........ Penang / Beetle Nut
1 Do. ................... 2 Do. ....... Long Pepper
1 Do. ................... 2 Do. ........ Black Pepper
1 Do. ................... 1 Do. ........ Buhgnna Kanana
The Governor and Council were greatly oblig'd and highly gratified by a View of the delightful Scene on board your Ship which impressed their Minds with the warmest and most animated Glow of Gratitude towards his Majesty for his Royal goodness, and benevolent Attention towards the Welfare of his Subjects here and in his West India Islands, and it also raised in them an inexpressible degree of Wonder and delight to contemplate on a floating Garden (fraught with what may prove of inestimable Value to that part of Mankind who have the Blessing to reside under his Auspices) transported in Luxuriance from one Extremity of the World to the other.