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process as making starch from Potatoes it produced a beautiful white flour when baked the Bread is by no means of a bad quality.
I have found it in many places here, particularly on Egg & Upper Islands but have not as yet found it in quantitys enough to say for a certainty that it will be worthy of attention with respect to its utility, but I shall not lose sight watch its growth progress in growing and endeavour to ascertain what quantity can be procured. The Plant in appearance is very like the Elder and I think it with this difference that it is herbacious and grows from three to ten feet high, and the root nearly two feet deep in the ground. I do not think it is known to the Natives not having observed any marks of their being dug out of the earth. I have no doubt but that the root you received from the Derwent is the same kind.
You will also receive from Mr. Edwards two bundles of the Hinter bark, a part of which I beg you will send to my friend Sir Joseph Banks as I shall mention in my Letter to him which will