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known. <A map of the territory, embracing its rivers, sounds, harbors, 
coasts, forts, &c., has been prepared, which will furnish the govern- 
ment with a mass of valuable information relative to our posseseinnyy on 
the northwest coast, and the whole of Oregon. 
Experiments were made with the, pendulum on ‘‘ Mouna Loa” on the 
island of Hawaii, one of the Sandwich Islands, at a height of 14,000 feet 
above the level of the sea. Topographical surveys and views were 
made of some of its active and most extensive craters. 
Experiments have been made with the e pendulum, magnetic appara- 
tus, and various other instruments, on all ¢ ecasions; the temperature of 
the ocean, at various depths, ascertained in the different seas traversed, 
and full meteorological and other observations kept during the cruise. . 
Charts of all the surveys have been made, with views and sketches 
of headlands, towns or villages, &c. with desctiptions of all that aie 
tains to the localities, productions, language, customs, and manners. 
At some of the islands, this duty has been ai 
exposure, and risk of life—the treacherous ch 
ent vessels of the squadron on surveying duty, (tk 
which has been performed in boats,) among islan 
period of ten, twenty, and thirty days at one time; o} 
sions, two of the officers were killed at the Fiji gre 
their boat’s crew from an attack by the natives. | 
The scientific gentlemen have been actively eng ged 3 in their various 
departments, and subject to all the exposures i cident to researches 
among dangerous and hostile savages. Mr. Hale, th 
expedition, was left at the Columbia river, for the p 
ting his labors among the different tribes of the O 
may, be expected home overland early in August. 
Several islands not laid down in the charts have b 
one of which the natives offered worship, evidently elieving that their 
visiters had come from the sun 
a ae 
has also examined, several islands bind, to had 7 
: ee laid down on the charts, and mr not laid down at 
aS a oe 
— 
Pt ies 
: commercial regulations established ‘with the Sultan of 
; and a correct chart made of a feasible and short route for pass 
: these seas towards China, against the northeast monsoon. 
ate. i the officers and crew of the expedition have been exposed 
varie — the general health of the squadron has been 
cedent. | 1 rd, master’s mate, 
home) and only sight ) — mea 
