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The greater portion of the interior of this extended coun- 
try, and its northern coast, remains to be explored and inves- 
tigated by Captain Franklin and our inestimable friend Dr. - 
Richardson, together with the officers and men who will be 
appointed to accompany them. Of the botanical acquire- 
ments of the last-named gentleman we have the highest opin- 
ion. For zeal in collecting he cannot be surpassed; still, in 
order that his collections may be more complete, and that a 
greater extent of country may be embraced, he has, partly at 
his own expense, and partly by the aid of government, re- 
solved upon taking with hin Mr. Drummond of Forfar, whom 
we have already mentioned in this Journal most favourably, 
as the author of a valuable work on the mosses of Scotland, 
and whom we have no hesitation in pronouncing to be one of 
the most acute and ardent followers of aeny that this coun- 
try peas 
e ex edition; as is well known, will embark” early in 
Feobsasry. and it will land at New-York. Captain Franklin, 
Dr. Richardson, and Mr. Drummond will ag segetens as 
far as Red River on Lake Winipeg, or Carlton House on the 
Saskatchawan, which will be Drummond’s head- quarters for 
two summers, from whence he will make excursions in com- 
pany with the fur traders, at the head of that vast valley which 
forms the extensive plain across the Missouri, and opens to- 
wards Mexico. Here, therefore, he may be expected to 
meet with a highly curious vegetation and plants, nee to 
those which Nuttall, James, and Bradbury, discovere 
banks of the Missouri itself. He will likewise have sh ia 
portunity of botanizing on the declivities of the Rocky: Moun- 
tains; in lat. 52°. 
Captain Franklin and Dr, Richardson will proceed together 
as far as the mouth of the Mackenzie river, which wi = 
much time as their other important avocations will permit, in 
eneeins plants and other objects of natural history ; and Dr. 
ichardson will take care to instruct one or more of the party 
