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as the Scurvy with which the settlers in New S. Wales were afflictd during the first winter of their residence then disapeard intirely on the first approach of the spring as their supply of Culinary vegetables must be always on the increase & they must by degrees learn more & more the care of those which are found wild in the country & as the Later returns do not mention the scurvy as a desease with which they are at all afflicted I am of opinion that it will be useless to send out Essence of Malt to them as a medecine.
May 14,1789.
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