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 UK, BROWN's LETTER. 



HAVING been informal of your intention of pubUJh- 

 ing an account of the different fpceies of the genu* Cin- 

 chona, permit me to picfent you with a fpcric* of Peru- 

 vian Bark new at Icart to mc. and which I believe » very 

 link- known in this country •• 



In the year 170.3 I was engaged to go Surgeon of the 

 SpCCdy Tranfjtort, Captain Thomas Mel v til. belonging 

 to Mr. Endcrbyand Sons, Paul's-Wharf, London. We 

 were firft bound to New South Walts with provifioro, and 

 afterwards on theSj>crni whale (iflicry along the coalbof 

 Chiliand Pent. While filhing near the Gallapagoe illands, 

 out crew unfortunately being Rated with the fca fciirvy, 

 it wm found jtilitluttly DOCdSny (o make the main in or- 

 dei to refreili them. The Captain intended Mania for 

 ihis purpofc, a fmall Indian village lying to the fouth- 

 \v ord ol ' he Equator; hut the wind and current hanlking 

 us, we were obliged to bear away and run for Tceame/, 

 another Indian village, lituatcd in 46 miles north latitude, 

 and probably near 80 degrees weft longitude. Mere 



