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I have the honour of sending to your lordship, with this, 
a paper containing samples of cloves received by me from 
Mr. Buee some months ago: Numbers 1 and 2, mentioned 
by him p. 19, (331.), are mixed: No. 3, his best sort, are 
separate. Your lordship may, if you think fit, order a com¬ 
parison to be made, by some dealers in spice, between 
these and the cloves we usually receive from the Dutch: 
I shall only add, that when I applied for information on 
the same subject to an eminent wholesale dealer in that ar¬ 
ticle, the only answer 1 obtained was, that he thought me 
grieviously deceived in supposing the cloves to be the pro¬ 
duce of the West Indies, he being absolutely certain they 
came from the East. 
I have the honour to be, 
With infinite regard and esteem, 
Your lordship’s obedient humble servant, 
JOSEPH BANKS, 
Earl of Liverpool. 
