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would be much benefited by his Services.
I did intend to have despatched him at this time and to have kept the Frances, and but I hope the cause I have given for my giving the will be satisfactory.
I have sent you a specimen of our new discovered yam. Altho' this Plant has been known to me since the year 1793 when on an excursion at the Hawkesbury I found it on the banks of the Creek opposite Mr. Palmers house in the year 1801 at on Ash Island, and also at Kents Group, but the discovery of the root I owe to the Government swine which who I put upon Green Island when the Buffalo was on shore, however it has not been noticed until of late when the Corpl. of the Guard doing duty upon that Island, in digging up a piece of ground for the purpose of putting some seeds and Potatoes in, he found one plant which produced nearly fifteen pounds of roots and on making the experiment by roasting it in the Embers for four hours he found it to be a tolerable substitute for Potatoes, and on a farther experiment, by going through the same process