Downing Decr. 3d. 1775.
Dear Sir
many thanks for yr favors of the 3d past &c & for the excellent specimen of the road book. Which will be of great utility. I trust that the writer has actually visited all the parts even the extreme. I beg a thousand pardons about saying that I had not Moyses for I just find you had presented it to me before. but I will find means of returning one copy. I have now with me Doctor Forster & his son who make some stay here. I am vastly happy with their remarks on their circumnavigation, which are most curious & instructive. They will soon have their voyage ready for the press: It will appear in a year. it will be in folio in two volumes. One by Captn Cook. The last will be chiefly nautical. Theirs on natural Philosophy, manners, oeconomy &c of the people they have seen.1 Pray excuse the inclosed.
I am Dear Sir
yrs most
affectly
I hope Mr Low is not ill. if his silence results from nuptial engagements, It is venial.
The Zoology is in qto & octvo.
The acct of Dornadilla’s tower is reprinted in my voyage.2
yr debt is so small that I shall not send you a draft till it is larger.
To
Mr Paton
at the Custom house
To
Mr Paton
at the Custom house