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Letter 3 {3 XVII Hulks

[Botany Bay]

Our victuals would do in quantity: but the quality
is so bad, and the cooking so nasty, that nothing but
climming [starving] can force a man to eat it. We
have meat for dinner one day, and bread and cheese
the other: boiled barley for breakfast, and burgon for
supper: neither, good not clean: so that they that can
get any thing eat but litle of the ship's allowance
This is a very bad place ....It is impossible to live
here long.

Well, Sir, but this correspondent of your's who is
he? "him of miser my Lord: butyet not the less but the
more credible, for his place unvarnishedin his undesigned and artless tule. [+]1 [+] Had the person written
to been a person from
whose interpretation any
the faintest hope of relief
could have been
conceived, motives for
exaggeration at least
if not for absolute
untruth might have
been imputed, and
no altogether without
cause. The fact is -
that written to a shorter
though not companion
in affliction, as above
described, it fill by mere
accident, thought not
without sufficient authentication,
into the hands
of a gentleman by
whose permission the
copy I have (the
original having been also in my
hands) was obtained.

But his name, Sir? - To my Lord: there your
Lordship will have the goodness to excuse me. I have

Identifier: | JB/116/603/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 116.
Date_1	1802-12-31	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	116	Main Headings	panopticon versus new south wales
Folio number	603	Info in main headings field	letter 3
Image	001	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d20 / e3
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	letter was never sent; see note 8 to letter 1747, vol. 7	ID Number	38136
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