E APPENDIX.

10 on a long Voyage, 1n order to aſcertain whe- atoes i in the before-mentioned ſtate will keep on Sand particularly in hot climates, without ‘be ng N with weevils or other inſets,—we beg We to inform you, that, being at all times deſirous of promoting any diſcovery that may have a tendency to e benefit his Majeſty's ſervice, we have ordered two kegs,

the one containing a proportion of the dried ſlices, and the other of the meal, to be ſent to our Agent at Portſ-

permiſlion, on board his Majeſty’s ſhip St. Albans, under your commands and we have therefore to requeſt you | will be pleaſed, in due ſeaſon, to cauſe the kegs to be | i opened, and to report to us the fate of preſervation in which you ſhall find the potatoes ſo cured to have kept, | that we may communicate the ſame to the Baard of

Agriculture. Me are SI Your moß humble Servants, G. Cherry, F. F. Hartwell, F. Stephens, | ß KR.$. Moady, F. Hunt, IW. Boſcawen, |: ;(Copy) FW. Goſling. / ;

St, Albans, St. Helens, 18/5 December, 1795.

| GENTLEMEN, | Iv obedience to your direQion, I Lage ac arerent \ periods, and in the diferent climates to St. Helena, ad VE back again, inſpe@ed into the ſtate of the prepared pota- | toes; and beg leave to give it as my very humble | opinion, that both the ſliced and the meal retain all , the eſſential qualities of the potatoe, unimpaired, al- though

mouth, with dire&ions for his putting them, with your‘