48 LETTER FROM GOVERNOR SIMPSON. 



at your command; and that this letter is to 

 be considered as sufficient authority for you to 

 call those resources into action as occasion may 

 require. 



" Believe me, my dear Sir, 



" Yours most faithfully, 



" Geo. Simpson." 



" To Alexander JR. M'Leod or Simon M' Gil- 

 livray, Esquires ; and to Mr. John M'Leod, 

 or Mr. Murdoch M'Pherson. 



" Red River Settlement, 

 5th June, 1833. 



" Gentlemen, 



" An expedition has been planned by the 

 Governor and Committee and the Arctic So- 

 ciety, in which his Majesty's Government and 

 the British public take the deepest interest, 

 having for its object the discovery of Captain 

 Ross and his crew, and the relieving them from 

 their supposed perilous situation, if still in exist- 

 ence ; together with the survey of those un- 

 known regions on the northern coast of America 

 lying between Point Turnagain and the Straits 

 of the Fury and Hecla. 



" The command of this expedition has been 

 given to Captain Back, R.N. ; and the Governor 

 and Committe have directed that every support, 

 assistance, and facility be afforded that gen- 



