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xxx dition to Port Jscica, and you ill, on your arrival, deliver to Covernor MSCClfiarie the aceompanying despatch which state the object whi you have in view, and the means by whi it is to be accomplislmt. The Governor will  t your  any wl,-i vessal which you may consider bet caleuiated for the voyage,  you will concert mh him as to the equipment of such vessel, amt avail yourself of his knowledge of the everal Persore in the colony, in mxler to aelect a crew on whom reliaue can be placed for sllness mi suberdinlgion. Beside the persons necessary for the navigation m e the vessel, you will receive on baard Mr. A. Cunningham, a botanist, now in New South Wales, who hs received the orders f Sir Joph Banks to attend you; and you will engage any other person, if there be such in the colony, who possesses a competent knowledge of Mineralogy or Natural History.

It is on every account mot desirable that the Expedition should proeeed from Port Jackson as early as possible; you will therefore make every exertion in your power to accelerate your departure from thence, and your ar- rival at the p&nt speeltled in your Admilty imtruction.

The Lords Cammisioner m e the Admiralty having giv you detai iuctions relative to the navl abje of the Expedition, I have only to direct your