W H I T E's JOURNAL 
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NEW SOUTH WALES. 
I THIS day left London, charged with difpatches from 1787. 
the Secretary of State's office, and from the Admiralty, ^^^^ 
relative to the embarkation of that part of the marines and 
convids intended for Botany Bay ; and on the evening of the 
feventh, after travelling two days of the moft inceflant rain 
I ever remember, arrived at Plymouth, where the Charlotte 
and Friendfhip tranfports were in readinefs to receive them. 
General Collins, commander in chief at that port, loft 
no time in carrying the orders I had brought into execu- 
tion : fo that on the morning of the ninth, the detachment 
of marines were on board, with all the baggage. But the 
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