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"Peninsula."
As I said in the speech
with which I opened the proceedings,
I had krown W: Forrison-Woods for twenty years successively of Qecmeland, New --m
white I was Governors
Zaland,
and Victoria, as an eminent
-acologist and Mineralogist, and as
author
the au
one
of m
best books
of the best.
the cxploration of Australia. He has. latily explored the ssining district of the Malay Seminula, under the auspices of the Governor, Sir Frederick
Hold . His lecture / of which a report (is enclosed,) was
very
well received, Enclosure
And
and (as I observed) was of practical
aud
· financial as well as
interest to
as of scientific
many persons in this ommunity who have advanced funds
for the working of the Mines in the Malay
Peninsula.
I have the honour to be,
My Lord,
Your Lordship's Most Obedinct,
Humble Servant,
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