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LONDO N, Metfit

... is worfe. A (hip of war is now fitting out for the purpofe of being fent to Otaheite, in order to convey plants of the bread fruit-tree to the Weft India Iflands. It is to contain a complete apparatus ofa hot-houie, and a bct.tuift and gardner is to accompany ...

Published: Monday 14 May 1787
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 804 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

-—SS^mjgSAXD PEAR,

... Captain Cook; but, at toe ifland, they attempted to {teal a boat and an an- ther, and fonie hoftilities enfued. _ The bread-fruit trees remaining on board, were in iprofperoas a ftate, that Lieutenant Bligh propofed ■' 'ss •pA rhe gratification.of conveying ...

Published: Monday 28 September 1789
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 750 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

LONDON, Oc-roBE-t 9

... Kingts fupenntendar.t of that garden, was mo- mently expecting the arrival of a (hip from Ots-heite with a quantity ofthe bread fruit-tree, of which be was. fp.jgood as to promife me a part to ir.ttodu. c ir into the Bahamas. This tree agreeing well with a ...

Published: Monday 12 October 1789
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 5379 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

L O I\T I. O N,

... voyage having been fo far made good, as the Ihip to be on her return to the Atlantic Ocean. — Upwards of one thoni.tn.i bread-fruit trees, in the fined prefervation, were on board, ail of which we:, obtained from the native roil, with immenfe labour. Some ...

Published: Thursday 25 March 1790
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1952 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

LONDON,

... pany with the Difcovery, Captain Roberts, in purfuit ofthe defperadoes on board the Bounty. The objeft of conveying the bread fruit-trees to tbe Weft Indies, will be the fecond confideration of the voyage : — and the Hound will therefore be prepared to receive ...

Published: Monday 05 April 1790
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1266 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

LOND O N,

... Stafford af.i_.es of Healing iron from the Merfey Canal, and was fentenced to be tranfport- ed forfbntteen years. That the Bread-fruit Tree will fiourifb in the Well; Indies, there is the ftrongefl prefumption. 'i'hc Su- gar-cane, a native ofthe call, thrives ...

Published: Saturday 10 April 1790
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2896 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

BF.rAr--sP.inT TRFFa

... BF.rAr--sP.inT TRFFa The failure of the expedition of the Bounty with the bread-fruit trees, has never been properly dated to the public. It is a lofs of the heavieit kind, and ought to be re- medied with the gicattil poliible fpetd. Captain do-, fpettks ...

Published: Monday 26 July 1790
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 116 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

LONDO N,

... of the expedition of the 800 l I the bread-fruit trees, has never been propel ■ tt» the public It is a lofi ol the heavieii I ought to be remedied with the gn iteft pofli Capt. Cook, ijse.s'is ofthe bread-fruit trees ii lowing terras : If a mars plants ...

Published: Thursday 29 July 1790
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1601 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

LONDON

... coafi. This fervice eflcefted Captain Iliigii will purlue his voyage to Otaheite, where he wiil once more take in the bread fruit trees, in order to tranfpiant this valuab'e root to our Weft India iflands. Rums and fugars are on the rife already, in confe- ...

Published: Thursday 03 November 1791
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2092 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

London, May io

... iciemblir.e. common pilch-pine. On board ?? were one ortwo.arf. and louie other ttfc-ful articles, made- fioni ?? of the bread fruit tree. It is of a cl»L* h..: liuicii ici'eiiir.li g mahogany. The city ot Gotterbttrg, ia Sweden. I fuffercd by tire : — ?t ...

Published: Monday 13 May 1793
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1726 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

EAST-INDIA ARRIVALS

... nephew to the Duke of Northumber- land, is to be numbered with the wounded. Captain Bligh's (hip, the Providence, on the Bread Fruit Tree expedition, has, at prefent, Commodore Ford's Pendant hoilted in her, and is the only King's fhip ot Force at Port Royal ...

Published: Saturday 15 June 1793
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1086 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

ANOTHER ACCOI'KT

... lather ag^init tlieir inclination! into port. The armed ihrps, Providence and Afltttance, i.ste- ly retatned from the bread fruit-tree expedition :-.re difmantled and paid clx. The young male n nice that Captain Bligh brooght over fiostt Otaheite, is; ...

Published: Saturday 07 September 1793
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1458 | Page: 3 | Tags: none