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space and time permitted, here annex a table of the daily maximum and 
minimum oceanic temperatures between the entrance of the squadron 
upon the Paumotu group and its arrival at Tahiti, in support of the views 
advanced in my article, but it is better “gaa to defer it for the present, 
as the Association will meet so shortly. 
p. 135, to which, with a view save time, I refer the reader, Mr. D. | 
specifies what he is pleased to call a very apparent instance of equivoca ! 
tion, a (for me) most unfortunate aca in the idea—and adds, “‘ We 
may reasonably hesitate before we give full credit to the statements of one 
who will so prove false to his own writings.’ : 
Now I assert ia regard to this, that the equivocation is entirely Mr.D.’s, 
and utterly deny that L have in any instance proved false to my own wrk 
tings, or falsified my opponent’s. It were well for him could he with Lm 
trath say as much. Where I remark, in my vindication, p. 385, 
t exists is ‘the field of their most ‘lavish display,’” I refer to thas roa 
atures to be thos the surface! ask the readers of this Journal to 
reperuse this wre in my apne: and decide whether my language 
has not been pitifully distorted, to fasten on me this charge of equivoca- 
But this is far from the most olaridg instance of Mr. D.’s shamefal 
perversion of my expressions. I 48 pass over, for the present, the coo 
manner in which he meets my char of having accused me of making 
before the Association statements acaweill from his MSS. , by merely gaye > 
ing that he was led into error, but this matters little with the points at 
issue—merely remarking that it isa very easy mode of avoiding the ace 
knowledgment that he has been guilty rs making a deliberate a 
on hearsay, every word of which is untrue. IT proceed to notice anot 
instance of his honorable method of using ee ‘nguage of an aon 
With the view of casting farther ae on my assertions, he says, pp. 136, 
136, “ I might dwell upon the admiss Mr..C., that the fact of the 
absene ce of corals from the Galla aptioe, was not verified by him till the 
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sheets of his article in the Boston Journal were going through the press. 
This Hee was fully stated in my report, the reading of which has been so 
singularly forgotten, and the whole poet at some length; yet he only 
ifi di is is 
verifi dit when, long afterwards, his paper was in the press.” Th 
his statement. Now for oe language, on which it is based, or, more cor- 
fact of the absence of corals at i Galas, have never yet veritid 
excepting by the testimony of some whalemen whom I met er. and 
I never considered that any other verification was necessary. ea 
