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his pay from the exorbitant price of every article of life with respect to the state of the Store I refer you to my friends Townson & Waterhouse.
My excursion to the Hawkesbury was chiefly to exaimen the Terrace for Coal. I got down 150 feet through blue slate & got to a very hard rock from what came up with the base, it appeared to be a sort of Granite the River rose so high that I was obliged to give up the pursuit for the present but the pleasure I had in visiting the Settlers and adding I hope somewhat to your collection has amply compensated for that disappointment, in the small Box of specimens which Capt. Waterhouse has charge of there are also a few seeds for His Majestys Garden at Kew, they are all fresh gathered most of them beautiful & I am sure never has been sent to Europe before, those markd H are from the Hawkesbury P from Parramatta & S from Sydney some of the Grass's I hope you will find entirely new & I hope will arrive safe.
The specimen of wood &c and the mountain Pheasant (as it is called) which I sent by Captain Raven for Lady Banks are I hope received in good condition.
The Gentlemen from this Country will inform you of the Arrival of the two Ships with Irish Convicts and their threats to organize the Colony in a certain time, beginning at first with the Military, although I have little to apprehend, it will be very necessary to keep a watchfull eye over them. I really wish we had a Settlement where we could keep them by themselves under a strong guard. It