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relation only to his unfitness for conducting the 

 voyage of discovery, where science and accuracy 

 were indispensable. In practical seamanship it is 

 understood and admitted that he is sufficiently well 

 skilled, as may be inferred from Sir George Hope's 

 recommendation, as well as from the nature of his 

 early and various services in ships of war in the 

 Baltic, in merchant ships, and in ships trading to 

 the East Indies. 



