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It is for several reasons most desirable that you should arrive on this.coast, and com_mence your.survey as early as possible, nd you will therefore, when the vessel shall be ready, lose no time in proceeding to the unexplored coasts; but you are at liberty to commence your survey at whichever side you may judge proper, giving a pre. ference to that which you think you may be able soonest to reach; but in case you think that indifferent, my Lords would wish you to commence by the neighbour. hood of the Rosemary Islands.

F. ither on your way out, or on returning, you should examine the coast between Cape Leer/win and the Cape Gosselin, in M. De Freycinet's chart; and generally. yo u will observe, that it is very desirable that you should visit those ranges of coast which the French navigatorq. have either not seen at a]t, or at too great a distance to ascertain and lay down accurately.

You will provide yourseft at Port Jackson with the seeds of such vegetables as it may be considered most useful to propagato on the coqts you may visit, and you will take measures for sowing or planting them in the fittest situations, with a view not only .to their preservation, but to their being within the observation and reach of succeeding navigators.

You will take care to make duplicate copies of all your notes, surveys, and drawings; and you are to take