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
