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he changes the whole truth. He may not have found any record of the 
temperature taken; I should be astonished if there was one ; but this is 
aw — different thing from finding a record that none was taken ill 
. point out any record i in this log-book, of Dr. Pickering and my- 
self measuring the distance from the ocean to the lagoon at Wilson’s 
. (or Peacock’s yI. ? any of my being ordered to _ascertain the height of 
h ing t wae pea i 
the route, and making all pc ossible observation on the topography of the a 
joining a even a fina deedelianaa under orders to return 
home at this Sales poet Nay, farther, will Mr. Dana pretend that from __ 
the day of ie leaving the United States till that of my leaving the squad- 
ron in Nov , there are a dozen instances in which any excursion, 
subject, that the log-book was the record of t ip’s business, not ours, 
(the naturalists More worthless evidence on any point touching their 
actions than as here paraded o se could not have been conjured 
ne other note, p. 130, requires a few werk “Mr. Couthouy was with 
“ — only about one year and a half of the four occupied i in the 
one who is so ready to accuse another of equivocation 
Bere none can be proved, yet be certainly in his last quoted paragraph 
on the record of the log-book, at least treads on the verge of it himself, 
this inaccurate statement, whagethe may be its motive; comes with a very 
bad grace. I joined the squadron about the 8th of August, 1838. 
“eg an attached to the expedition until 3d November, 1840, when I 
ordered home from Oahu. 
ew words et his roma on my public journals, DP. 7 
hav they are found, sire me no surprise what Not 
withstanding that they could no where be-discovered when called for in 
evidence against Lieut. Wilkes, all who ever heard me allude to the matter — 
after having had my own views ther ein contained, se quoted to me 
y another as the result of his reflections; deter ined, thenceforth, 
while recording fact, to keep my deductions to ‘Sen x till the time arrived = 
for me to publish them. But, if. what Mr. D. asserts be true, and ther 
“not a word on the influence of temperature on the growth of corals, Dor 
any thing bearing the most remotely on this subject,” then I unhesitating- 
ly affirm: ‘that they have been mutilated. There is, or was in the firs st vole 
