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To
His Excellency Sir J. Harvey, Lieut.t Governor and Commander in Chief of the Province of Nova Scotia and its Dependencies at the Government House at Halifax, N.S.

I received a note dated Government House Nov. 11th with much pleasure, and humbly thank His Excellency for his kindness in accepting the small presents and condescending to acknowledge it, and as it will do me a threat Honour to be permitted to wait upon His Excellency, I will avail myself of the request of His Excellency the first first favourable opportunity.

I very much regret to find those few words under a Mourning Seal, and heartily sympathize with His Excellency in his affliction of whatever nature it may be; _

We have a great many wrecks here this winter with Seventy Six persons, besides the Twenty five persons belonging to the Establishment to Feed, and from the very small stock of provisions put on the Island last October, say 15 bls. of Flour, and five barrels of Bread, I have had serious apprehensions of much suffering, some of those persons have been here since the 12th of November, and we lost a great many of our Potatoes, by the universal complaint that is amongst them, I have been, and am now killing cattle to feed the hundred + one mouths and we shall be entirely out of provisions by the last of February if even no more distressed people come on the Island. Our stock of Fuel is also consuming very fast owing to the great number of Fires to consume it, and although the weather here is very
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