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but there stands the blasts well & surely their is plenty and a variety of them hot and lots with blinding sands on this Island cabbages turnips beets carrots salad and radish if the little fly would let them grow, & the gardeners rise early and act faithful & nune[[sp]] the tender blades
tho Cate, by fate I humbly thank you for the variety of seeds sent by Capt Darby which I have received in good order same time received 5 tt bread some tin prints & a cooking pot the seeds I shall plant soon as possible at the three settlements, over the best ground plant or not and support them that comes up with the best continence - in the included invoice is all the articles put on board Capt Darby for Halifax also an account of what provisions remain in store & with each family total there is a furkin[[sp]] of butter on board for Lady Wentworth if you please, some cranberries in light casles[[sp]] for experiment with rines pleas order a good one to Sir John and some of them to my other good Friend our Medicine chest speaks fondly for one a good share,
the new boat was launched in april completly ready for sea with three, almost, new sails in 25 feet in length 7 feet beam and should no castaway people call to take her abay ere a reseel[[sp]] return here from Halifax and the Commissioners should order her away in the [[?]], in that case Cumbur should be sent on for another but the boards should be a sound inch clear stoss[[sp]] as possible, & good oak or white ash that would bend well for timber all the wood I found on the Island that this boat is built with, except only three boards sent on which was a large inch thick her bottom is pine and cedar I humbly thank Mr. Harthorn for the cedar buries[[sp]] our bundles of every wind that has ben set out from time time are all dead but shall try the cedar in the Interim I am your Honored Most Ob. And Most Humble. James Morris