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II. On the Production of Ambergris . A Communication from the 
Committee of Council appointed for the Confi deration of all Mat- 
ters relating to T rade and Foreign Plantations % with a prefatory 
Letter from William Fawkener, Efq . to Sir Jofeph Banks, 
Bart . P. R. S> 
Read January 20, 1791, 
TO SIR JOSEPH RANKS, BART. . 
Office of Committee of Privy Council for 
Trade, Whitehall, 15th January, 1791. 
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L ORD Hawkesbury, Prefideht of the Committee of Privy 
Council appointed for the Confidefation of all Matters 
relating to Trade and Foreign Plantations, having received a 
Letter from Mr. Champion, a principal Merchant concerned 
in the Southern Whale Fiffiery, informing him, that a ffiip 
belonging to him had lately arrived from the faid fiffiery, 
which had brought home 362 ounces of ambergris, found by Mr. 
Coffin, captain of the faid ffiip, in the body of a female fper- 
maceti whale, taken on the Coaft of Guinea ; his Lordffiip 
thought fit to defire Captain Coffin, as well as Mr. Cham- 
pion, to attend the Lords of the Committee, that they might 
be examined concerning all the circumftances of the fait b^fpre 
mentioned ; and I am directed by their Lordffiips to tranfmit 
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