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Voyage of the Novara. 



ficiency of means ; for everything was complete in that 

 respect, and we owe it chiefly to the circumspection and kind 

 care of the Commander-in-chief of our navy, that this enter- 

 prise had been so wisely planned, and its details brought in 

 so short a time to such a degree of perfection that, during the 

 whole voyage, it was not found necessary to make the 

 slightest alteration in the original arrangements and regula- 

 tions. 



