44 On ths Produdiion of 
to you a copy of the examination of thefe two gentlemen, 
that you may communicate the fame to the Royal Society, if 
you fhould think that any of the circumftances, Rated in this 
examination, will contribute to remove the doubts hitherto 
entertained concerning the natural hiftory and produ&ion of 
this valuable drug, I fend you alfo a piece of the ambergris 
fo taken out of the whale, and fome of the bills of the filh 
called Squids (which are fuppofed to be the food of fperma- 
ceti whales), and which were found partly in the ambergris 
taken from this female whale, and partly on the outfide of it, 
and adhering to it. 
I have the honour to be, &c. 
W. FAWKENER. 
At the Council Chamber, Whitehall, the 12th January, 1791. 
By the right honourable the Lords of the Com- 
mittee of Council appointed for the Confidera- 
tion of all Matters relating to Trade and Fo- 
reign Plantations. 
READ— Letter from Mr. Alexander Champion, a prin- 
cipal merchant concerned in the Southern Whale Filhery, to 
Lord Hawkesbury, dated the 2d inftant, acquainting his 
Lordlhip, that Captain Joshua Coffin, of the fhip The 
Lord Hawkefbury, is lately arrived from the Southern Whale 
Fifhery ; and that the faid fhip, befides a cargo of 76 tons of 
fpamaceti oil and head-matter, has brought home about jdo 
ounces 
