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^^jP- officers employed under my command, particularly to 

 those whose immediate assistance I have acknow- 

 ledged in my introduction, Ijriefly to enumerate these 

 services, as they are of such a nature that they cannot 

 appear in a narrative, and as my professional habits 

 have unquahfied me for executing, with justice to 

 to them, or with satisfaction to myself, the task of 

 authorship which has devolved upon me as com- 

 mander of the expedition, and which I should not 

 have undertaken had I not felt confident that the can- 

 did public would look more to what has been actually 

 done, than to the mode in which the proceedings have 

 been detailed. In the Appendix to the fjuarto edition I 

 have collected as much information as the nature of 

 the work would admit. Besides the interesting mat- 

 ter which it will be found to contain, the expedition 

 has surveyed almost every place it touched at, and exe- 

 cuted plans of fourteen harbours, of which two are new ; 

 of upwards of forty islands, of which six are discoveries ; 

 and of at least six hundred miles of coast, one- fifth of 

 which has not before been delineated. There have also 

 been executed drawings and views of headlands, too 

 numerous to appear in one work ; and I hope shortly 

 to be able to lay before the public two volumes of 

 natural history. 



In takins; my leave, it is with the greatest pleasure I 

 reflect that the Board of Admiralty again marked the 

 sense they entertained of our exertions, by a further 

 hberal promotion at the close of the expedition. 



END OF THE NARRATIVE. 



