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The beef and pork were cured at our naval establish- 

 ments at Deptford, Haslar, and Plymouth. The prime 

 pieces alone, free from bone, were selected, and as recent 

 as the time permitted. At Haslar, under the especial 

 superintendence of Sir Edward Parry and Sir John 

 Richardson, our store of pemmican was prepared. 



Our other supplies were principally from the firms of 

 Hogarth, Fortnum and Mason, Gamble, Moir, Moore, 

 Allsop, Edwards, Masson, Chollet and Co., Fadeuille ; 

 and to the result of my public reports I must refer these 

 parties for the general good opinion entertained of their 

 supplies. 



I do not imagine that the reading public will feel any 

 interest in the account of the general amount of provi- 

 sions, comforts, etc. embarked; but as I have myself 

 frequently been disappointed at not finding the list of 

 extras, and the value assigned to them, I have inserted 

 such a list in the Appendix, with the collective opinion 

 thereon. 



Among the leading schemes proposed were the bal- 

 loons used by my predecessor, and blasting by aid of 

 galvanic agency. In the latter I took peculiar interest, 

 owing chiefly to the success which attended that mode of 

 simultaneous explosion on heavy charges at Round Down 

 Cliff, near Dover, in 1843 (displacing 400,000 cubic 

 yards by 18,500 Ibs. of powder !). But chamber-practice 

 and ice-practice are yet to be tested, on which refer to 

 separate article on Ice-Blasting : Appendix. On this 

 mode alone we were not dependent, and were also fully 

 provided with Bickford's match. 



From the Ordnance every possible attention was 



