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Journal of Transactions on the Island, which I hope you will approve of, Whilst I Remain, with the Truest Respect & Esteem,

Gentlemen
your ever Faithful
and Obedient Servant,
Joseph Darby

To
W. Lawson )
E. Wallace ) Esqrs,
E. [Cunard?],

Commissioners for the Affairs
of Sable Island, at
Halifax, N.S.

N.B. here has been another opportunity for a small Vessel to have been employed to advantage,

J.D.--