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Letter from Christopher Smith to Matthew Flinders (FLI01) Page 1


                            Prince Wales Island
My Dear Flinders
                              June 30th 1799


        On my arrival at Calcutta
from the Spice Islands in June 1798, I
had the pleasure to receive all your kind
and intelligent letters.
      It gives me infinite satisfaction
to see that you are in a fair way of
doing well. –
      I will now communicate to
you the out lines of ^ my peregrinations
since my arrival in India
      On my arrival in Calcutta
in February –95 I found Doctor Roxburgh
Superintendent of the Botanic Garden.
      For the first two months, the Doctor


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Flinders, Matthew
Auchmuty, (Colonel) Sir Samuel
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Shore, Sir John
Rainier, (Admiral) Peter
Mornington, Richard Wellesley (Lord Mornington)
Banks, Sir Joseph
Campbell, Robert
Smith, Christopher
Paterson, Lieutenant Colonel William
Wiles, James

Places
Calcutta
Spice Islands
Amboyna
Cape of Good Hope
Timor
Bass Strait
East India House
Coupang
Madras

Vessels
Reliance
Hobart

Words and phrases
Nutmeg and cloves
Breadfruit

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