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Sirs, The brigs are both dischar[g]'d.² On hoisting out the lower tier of the Flour on board Mr Lux and Bowley's Brig, I find it is damaged. I have had two gentlemen to view the Flour. The report they make I send you.³ The Flour apears to have been wet sum time ago, as it is rotten all round the outsides and head of the barrill and has since dried so that it is hard and black which answers with what Capt Lunds reports concerning it, as he says that it has not been wet this sum time, but was under water more than two months ago, and not since His report I have taken down in writing as I think there has been a fault. I would bee glad that the blame should be fixt right. Mr Spear has all the damaged Flour in his custody, and says that he will bake all that can be bak'd, and the remainder must be return'd I spose Mr Lux ought to take it; If so Mr Spear says hee will assist Mr Lux in dividing it, and such as can be bak'd, he will doe. The bake howses are going on and I sopose their might bee a parcel of bread, and part of Capt Woolseys flour sent to the Brig that lately arriv'd with your Powder, if it is practicable and must be done, the sooner the better....