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Orange Hill Trelawny Jama [Jamaica]
28 June 1784
Dear Sir
I received your Letter of the 2d Sepr. 1783, on my arrival in this Parish, and that of the 3d of May, on the 23d Inst. for both favrs accept my best thanks.
I have been bussily [busily] employed, ever since I came to the Northside, in botanical Researches; and as you once express'd a Wish, that the Sea Side Plants should be examin'd, I paid attention to them, and found several new ones, at least so to me, some of those are mentioned in Browne without description. I have been in Westmoreland, and got many Specimens I wanted, and I believe my own Collection will be the most numerous, since the time of Sloan.
The Collecting, arranging & drying Seeds, has taken up every spare moment. Many are got to hand, which with a few Specimens & Notes, will be sent in the Constant Trader Capt Wright. who sails very soon.
I have procured Cinchona Caribbean Bark, from a Tree 50 foot high, and above a foot in Diameter. This Bark