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their reply.

8.

I also addressed the British Consular Agent at Macao, but his

reply is merely a confirmation

the brief account

of

7

the

: Institution given by the Council.

.9.

Some

years ago

Jr Hobson

the Medical Missionary Society

at Canton published certain remarks

on this exbject in a very useful but now defunct Miscellary called the Chinese Repository - There I anney to the present despatch.

10.

I transmit likewise

a

کی برای

very singular passage, with which _^"] I recently chanced to meet, in a book not long since published,

Dr Seemann's Mission to Viti,

n

smoke

the Feejer bland. It relates to the cure of Leprosy by the surte of the plant Sinugage, and I thought it well to note it, lest it should possibly creape attention

elsewhere.

Ваш новагаль I am not aware of any

other

which I could obtain

11.

sources from

the

information for

which

your

may

Grace has called, but I

suggest

that Ir Lockhart of the

Medical Missionary Society is very

to be able

likely to make a valuable contribution to the stock of Knowledge which

be collected, and he may be reached through other Majesty's

may

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