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botanical purposes, a quantity of stationery, a small 

 selection of books, a medicine chest, a canteen, a 

 compendious cooking apparatus, and a few tins of 

 pemican, completed our baggage, which weighed in 

 the aggregate, above 4000 lbs. 



Mr. Barclay, the British consul, assisted with 

 much kindness in expediting our departure from 

 New York. An order from the United States 

 Treasury directed that our baggage should not 

 be inspected by the custom-house agents, and 

 it was without delay consigned to the care of 

 Messrs. Wells and Co., forwarders, who con- 

 tracted to send it to Buffalo, by rail-road, and 

 from thence to Detroit and Saut Sainte Marie, by 

 the first steam-boat, which was advertised to 

 sail from Detroit on the 21st of April. Imme- 

 diately on landing, the chronometers were placed 

 in the hands of Mr. Blount, of Water Street, 

 that he might ascertain their rate by comparison 

 with the astronomical clock in the observatory. 

 For this service Mr. Blount would receive no re- 

 muneration, but, on the contrary, said that he was 

 glad of the opportunity it afforded him of showing 

 his sense of the courtesy he had experienced from 

 the hydrographer of the British Admiralty. 



We received the chronometers next day, and 

 embarked in the evening on board the "Empire," for 

 Albany and Troy, with the view of proceeding, by 



