| Description | Sir,
Below you receive copy of a letter which came to Mr. Garbett last post relating to the black lead ore lately found in Scotland. Mr. Garbett desires his compliments to you and hopes you'l excuse his not writing himself, being just returned from Lichfield and a good deal hurried.
I am respectfully, sir, your most humble servant,
James Alston
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Drumeric, October 22nd, 1765.
To Mr. Garbett.
I am favoured with yours of the 10th by this day's post. Mr. Walker being just now in London, I can send you no particular or new information in regard to the black lead he found in the Highlands, but as Mr. McKenzie-who has a lease of the Isle of Lewis, where it is found-promised to order for me a hundred-weight or two of the stuff to be laid down at Edinburgh, I shall as soon as it arrives inform you of its quality and send you a parcel of it to Birmingham for a trial; but from what I have heard I fear it is of an inferior quality and not so good as the black lead found in Cumberland.
I am, &c.,
signed, George Clark
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