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So, year by year, this splendid work goes on, coasts are 

 charted, seas sounded, and hundreds of dangers to navigation 

 added to the charts; (in 1889. 230 dangers were recorded, 270 

 miles of coast charted, and 10,435 square miles of sea sounded; 

 in 1890, 274 dangers, 1,223 miles of coast and 4,674 s{(uare miles 

 of sea) ; and to-day the work still continues on a similar scale. 

 To its benefits all are welcome, and the number of charts now 

 disposed of by the Department annually exceeds 500,000. 



To me, there is nothing in all our history more magnificent 

 or worthy of rememl)rance than these surveys which we have 

 made of every sea in all the world. In the slime and heat of the 

 mangrove swamp, or the cold of Labrador, where the shore ice 

 does not float loose till the end of August, the work has been 

 done for all time. Once and for all we have done it, and, better 

 still, we have held out this freedom of the seas for all the w^orld 

 to take, as and when we have won it for otirselves. The sum of 

 the cost of it will never be made up, but a glimpse of what, in 

 one sense of the word, it has been appears in the note of the 

 Scottish survey in 1859. Gold, however, counts for nothing in 

 this balance. What we remember, and reverently salute, is the 

 incalculable ])rice we have paid in devoted lives, a sacrifice only 

 made tolerable to i:s and justified by Avhat has been accomplished. 



Road was never so rough that we left its purpose dark. 

 Stark was ever the sea, but our ships were yet i^Mrc stanx. 

 We have tracked the wind of the world to the steps of their very thrones, 

 The secret parts of the world arc salted with i>ur bones. 



As to the tem.per in which the work has been done, let 

 William Burrough repeat the instructions, very necessary and 

 needful to be observed, which he gave to Arthur Pet and Charles 

 Jackman in 1580.* when they set out to find Cathay; — 



Rut withal you may not forget to note as much as you can learn, under- 

 stand or perceive of the manner of the soil, or fruitfulness of every 

 place and country you shall come in, and of the manner, shape, attire and 

 disposition of the people. It behoveth you to give trifling things unto such 

 people as you shall happen to see, and to offer thein all courtesy and 

 friendship you may or can, to win their love and favour towards you, 

 not doing or offering them any wrong or hurt. And though you should 

 be offered wrong at their hands, yet r(ot to revenge the same lightly, but 

 by all means possible seek to win them, yet always dealing wisely and 

 with such circumspection that you keep yourselves out of their dangers. 



Thus I beseech God Almighty to bless you, and prosper your voya.^e 

 with good and happy success, and send you safely to return home again, 

 to the great joy and rejoicing of tlie adventurers with you, and all ymir 

 friends, and our whole countrv. .\men. 



Appendix I. 



Instructions and Notes z'ery necessary and needful to be obserz'cd 

 in the proposed voyage for the discovery of Cathay, east- 

 ivards, by Arthur Pet and Charles Jackman, given by 

 William Burrough, 1580. 



* See Appendix I. 



