116 : i FRANSIS MASSON. 
s he undertook, & succeeded, at least as fully as before, in sending home 
frou Mt Maderon Teneriff, & the Western pee Ay manner, the whole of their 
produce, the greate st part of which prov'd new uropean botanists, 
e mention is madé o fthese Plants, ried specimens of which he com- 
municated to the late ramet Linneus, in a work published by his Son, 
intitled c Seppe qoctten Plan 
Whe 
r. Masson arriv’d in era West Indian Islands, the war, then som 
what aieaioed made i it necessary for him intirely to drop his plan of visiting the 
Spanish Ma ich it was in vain for pply for a paspo: he 
culty he found means to send home — - collected, parts of which were 
ak lost by capture or waiting for 
‘When the en attack’d Granada We on calla upon to bear arms in its 
— eet a, & was taken Leap fighting in ‘the trenches 
Hex terrible hurricane of Octr. 14, 1780, at St. Lucie, and lost 
there all the Galledtinets at that ‘ime in his possession, & great part of his 
Clothes and P. thes ai 
Finding by fat al Seeraie that in time of war the purposes of his Mission 
could not efetuall be led, he came to the resolution of returning, which 
oi in Nove: oO her 
I shall take up his expences of his last v. voyage upon the same plan as they 
were settled by Sr. John Pringle for his voyage to the Cape. 
Account of Expences and Salary from April, 1776, to April, 1782. 
Bills et by him for his soy ~— the _FOveg®, by - 
Co 
1166 4 6 
Salary thon April, 1776, ee six years 600 0 0 
jesty was pleased to e him a Bank note in n advance at his 
d pene hich dadrrets ae 
ains due on acet. 0 vy 
f Sal 550 
Of which £193 5s. Od. was e expended it in as Paiiged | as appears by & list annexed. 
Having thus brought Mr. Masson home from ten years employment in 
Collecting plants for the Royal Botanick Garden at Kew, I cannot omit saying 
that during that time he has prov’d himself sufficiently instructed in the ie 
his dt ae for the purposes of his Mission, & indefatigable in the execution 0 
ec confident that the famous scent to the Levant, made by Mon 
Seales it by the order of Lewis XIV. at an immense expenee, did not produce 
So great an addition of Plants to the Paris Gardens ag Mr. Masson’ 's Voyage bes 
the Cape only = done to that of Kew 
As able to judge, his Majesties appointment of Mr, Masson is t 
be  aconnted ently the few Royal bounties which have not been in any degree 
—_ 
At present the ee - Europe making it necessary for Ships from all parts of 
his Majesties domini 0 come home in Convoy, mre precludes the Idea % — 
asson being Sneed with success in any part orld. 
hould his Majesty be graciously pleas’d to consider his past services, & et 
those he is likely to perform when a peace shall arrive, to appoint such p 
is salary as to his Royal wisdom shall seem meet for his re stent 
& that he having by ten years rn from improvem: of 
Profession, & by being during all that time brie sa the Society of Men 
Education, as well as cireumstanees mnt superior to his own in great measut? 
pi 
& 
incapacitated from followi 
Should his Majesty, be graciously vos bi ote er a Ravi? bac 
Salary for his present seidlahaihee: annexing ei 5 
e Royal B Garden, and to order in 6 ite maar ‘oon as ‘hale con. 
cern’d in the management of it can find a proper opportunity, I am confident 
t such his royal bounty whine conciliate the gratitude of all who 
ee 
* On this voyage or he collected at St talent hi 
have no date attached to one 
