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Letter from Christopher Smith to Matthew Flinders (FLI01) Page 7


poƒseƒsions in India, Cape of Good Hope,
St Helina [sic], Bot. Garden at Kew, & to the
Bt Garden in Jamaica, upwards of
64,500 plants.
      The celebrated Abbe Raynal has infor-
med the publick, that the Banda Isles, as
well as all the other Islands of the Moluccas
are barren to a degree; the Abbe has never been
at the Molluccas, or he would not have given
such a groundleƒs account — I suppose he
got his information, on this head, from some
Lazy Dutchman; I think I have seen as mu
-ch of the Molucca Island as any other person
hitherto, & perhaps more; I have ranged
every part of all the Spice Islands four
different times, and I can say with
confidence that, the soil of Great Banda
&


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Flinders, Matthew
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Mornington, Richard Wellesley (Lord Mornington)
Banks, Sir Joseph
Campbell, Robert
Smith, Christopher
Paterson, Lieutenant Colonel William
Wiles, James

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

Vessels
Reliance
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Words and phrases
Nutmeg and cloves
Breadfruit

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