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being at the Board I wrote to him on the application, & said I was always ready & had accepted what Capt Markham had proposed. His Lordship's Answer was very flattering and full of approbation - but is not strange My Dear Sir that they could not have given me a Ship on this Station from whence they would long ere this have got every information they regained.
I got here on Friday, but as yet no Cutter or Boat is to attend me, which I attribute to Lord Keith to whom their Lordships wrote to give me every assistance. I wrote to him, & his Answer was, he had been personally sounding in Cutters, & had given orders at Deal to supply me with all I might desire - of this I have reported to the Admiralty and have begun the Land part of my Survey.
Dungyness is 4 miles from this, over a Gravel Neck of land where we sink above the Anckle every step, and the walking is laborious.