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make choice of a ftation, fituated as near the fea-coaft as is ,, '777- • 



November. 



poffible, the better to enable you to fee. me, when I fhall ' u ' 



appear in the ofRng. 



If I do not join you before the ifl of next April, you are 

 to put to fea, and proceed Northward to the latitude 56° ; in 

 which latitude, and at a convenient diflance from the coaft, 

 never exceeding fifteen leagues, you are to cruize for me 

 till the loth of May. 



Not feeing me in that time, you are to proceed North- 

 ward, and endeavour to find a pafTage into the Atlantic 

 Ocean, through Hudfon's or Baffin's Bays, as direded by 

 the above-mentioned inftrudtions. 



But if you fhould fail in finding a pafTage through either 

 of the faid bays, or by any other way, as the fcafon of the 

 year may render it unfafe for you to remain in high lati- 

 tudes, you are to repair to the harbour of St. Peter and St. 

 Paul, in Kamtfchatka, in order to rcfrefh your people, and- 

 to pafs the winter. 



But, neverthelefs, if you find, that you cannot procure 

 the necelTary refrefhments at the faid port, you are at li- 

 berty to go where you fliall judge moft proper; taking care,, 

 before you depart, to leave with the Governor an account 

 of your intended deftination, to be delivered to me upon 

 my arrival: And in the Ipring of the enfuing year, 1779, 

 you are to repair back to the above-mentioned port, endea- 

 vouring to be there by the loth of May,, or fooner. 



If, on your arrival, you receive no orders from, or ac- 

 count of me, fo as to juftify yourpurfuing any other mca- 

 fures than what are pointed out in the before mentioned 

 in(lru6lions, your future proceedings are to be governed by 

 them. 



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