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ume of these journals, a regular series of observations, giving the daily 
mum tem an from the ti 
ures, dates, &c., thrown together and jotted down in a manner perfectly 
plain to me, though to any other person they would doubtless appear a 
congeries of unmeaning figures, without order or Sept n. 
he seals of my field note-books, says Mr. D., were broken for him, 
and these, too, cont othing. I ask the special attention of the 
reader to this statement, for ‘thereby hangs a tale.’ These journals and 
am I to know, who is to prove to me, that these seals were those affixed by 
me, that they had never been broken before, and the inconvenient testi- 
mony removed or mislaid? I again affirm, if these note-books inde 
contain sgor aed it is because every thing has been abstracted. Else, why 
was I not summoned to attend this opening of the books, this removal of 
submit to the Association at its approaching session, such posi testimo- 
ny as shall amply sustain all that I advanced in my reply to Mr. 
first as merely adding a I presume by this time the readers of this 
Journal are satisfied that “truth and honor,” “ character and right,” each 
and all demanded of Mr. an a somewhat different course from that he 
has Saat proper to pursue towards me. ‘ 
Since the above was in type, Mr. Couthouy has sent us a list of tem- 
peratures taken from the ship’s log-book, showing the daily maximum 
and minimum of the ocean (ranging from 77° to 83°) during the period 
from August 14 to September 10, 1839. This includes the time from 
the day of the squadron’s arrival in the Paumotus, to that of its anchoring 
in Tahiti. We have not room for the table itself —Epirors. 
