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I inclose you a drawing of an insect called the 

 Borer, which has occasioned more destruction 

 among the sugar-canes in the West Indies than the 

 Hessian Fly has in America. 



From Andrew Caldwell, Esq. 

 Sir, Dublin, Sept. 23, 1793. 



Your polite attention, when I took the liberty of 

 writing to you before, gives me courage to intrude 

 on you again. I hope you will have pleasure in 

 being informed that a garden for indigenous botany, 

 under the patronage of the Dublin Society, is a 

 measure determined upon. A committee, at the 

 head of which is Mr. Forster, speaker of the House 

 of Commons, and of which I have the honour to be 

 a member, is vested with proper powers and a sum 

 of money for purchasing ground. We have actu- 

 ally agreed for the house and garden formerly be- 

 longing to Dr. Delany. It is within a short mile 

 of town, the soil excellent, the ground well varied 

 with high and low, a small stream running through; 

 it seems well adapted in every respect. I mention- 

 ed to the Speaker that I had hinted this already to 

 you : — it gave him great pleasure ; and whenever we 

 get possession, and are enabled to begin the gar- 

 den, you shall be principally consulted, and your 

 advice and assistance chiefly relied on. The ground 

 consists of eleven acres, which is more than seven- 

 teen English acres. It is at present too much co- 

 vered with trees, but I shall be for cutting down 

 sparingly and with caution. Much of the old- 



