* With storm-ropes, pins, See. complete! 



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One set of (four) stained glasses. 



One case of mathematical instruments. 



One parallel ruler. 



One gunter's scale. 



One colour box, indian ink, and brushes. 



Nautical Almanacs for 1822 and 1823. 



Two Madras Almanacs for 1823. 



Book of requisite tables. 



Norie's Nautical Tables. 



Refined oil for the clock and pendulum. 



Bamboos and flags for signals. 



Steps to mount to the frame of the pendulum. 



Black paper for the ball of the clock-pendulum. 



Hair powder for paste. 



Two chamois-leather skins for cleaning the glasses of the 

 instruments. ; 



One office tent. 



Two subalterns' tents, 



Two necessary tents. 



Two baggage tents, 



One Lascar's tent, 



One large magazine tarpaulin. 



With hatchets, bill-hooks, pickaxes, plumb-lines, rope and 

 line of ditFerent descriptions, elects, nails, screw-drivers, drills, 

 and sundry smaller tools and articles. 



Stationary, an ample supply, including blank books. 



Ten dozen of wax-candles. 



Forty measures of oil; candlesticks, lamps, and lanthorns. 



Also a proper supply of medicines, and directions for using 

 the same. 



These instruments and articles were carefully packed in 

 25 cases, and arrived quite uninjured at the ultimate destination 

 of the Expedition. 



The following instructions, approved by the government, were 

 furnished by me for the guidance of the party. I was the more 

 particular in these instructions, as the service was new to those 

 going upon it, and to prevent, as far as possible, any interrup- 

 tion, from a want of the requisite information. 



Instructions, 



"The primary object of the Expedition is to make the requi- 

 site experiments and observations for ascertaining the length of 

 the pendulum at the Equator, to combine with observations 

 which have been made at Madras, and in other parts of the 

 earth : with this, other objects are not to be allowed to inter- 

 fere ; though opportunities will doubtless occur on the passage 

 to Bencoolen, and from that place to the Equator, and on the 



