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66 should be considered effectual, it is desirable that it should be as extensively known as possible.

Commander Crozier and I returned the visit of Captain Aulicko [sic] and prevailed on him and two of his officers to spend the following day on board the Erebus, and in examining the instruments at the observatories, which he was very desirous to see. It was on this occasion, when hearing from him, that he had only recently parted from the squadron under the command of Lieutenant Wilkes, and was likely in a short time to meet that officer again, being also a personal friend of his, I considered it to be the most delicate mode of acquainting Lieutenant Wilkes with the circumstance of our having passed over a large space in clear water, where he had placed mountainous land on the chart he sent me. As I have given a full account of this transaction in the first volume of my narrative, I need not make any further allusion to it here, except to express my regret, that,