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"will be most welcome"-- In consequence I took an early opportunity of waiting on Sir Joseph Banks, & to whom I communicated the gracious message I had received for Him--He was in consequence honored with an immediate interview, at which the subject was fully talked over, & the speculation was instantly & carefully begun--In the progress Everything met with that success which judicious arrangements from the first so well encouraged, and by gradual means a sufficient number of prime Spanish Sheep were imported for His Majesty, as to put all disappointment, as to the means, of obtaining the full operation of future Experiment out of the question--Then & not 'till then the secret began to transpire--and not very long after the then Prime Minister in Spain (whose name I do not now recollect) sent