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districts for tlic euds abovementioned, or to sell in the Colony 

 at the termination of the enterprise. In regard to these the 

 Committee has to remark, that attention to the two first- 

 mentioned objects is indispensable, from its necessary connection 

 with the safety and efficiency of the Ex])edition, and that the 

 third is to be contingent on the acquisitions of the party in 

 regard to its main object of collecting information as to the 

 country, and securing what illustrates its natural history and 

 resources, and on the state of its means of transport. The 

 Committee therefore recommend that this third object be at- 

 tended to only in case that it be necessary to send wagons back 

 for supplies, or in case that in the liomeward progress of the 

 party there be room for such articles without incommoding 

 it in its other operations. 



(Si-nied) THOMAS WADE, Chairman, 



J. HERSCHELL, 

 A. OLIPHANT, 

 JAMES ADAMSON, D.D. 

 T. M'LEAR, 

 A. J. CLOETE, 

 C. F. H. VON LUDWIG, 

 F. S. WATEIIMEYER, 



JOHN CENTLIVRES CHASE, 



Hon. Secretary. 

 June 23(/, 1834. 



We have remaining a very small space of this Number to 

 be occupied with a few of the many remarks which the pre- 

 ceding lustructions naturally suggest. It must always be re- 

 membered that such directions contemplate adaptations of a 

 twofold sort : they must keep in view not only the objects which 

 are best in themselves but those of them especially which may 

 be most profitably executed. The end ought not only to be a 

 useful end, and the means well fitted to reach it, bnt all ought 

 also to conform to the cherished views, to the disposition, capa- 

 bilities, and general preparation of those who are to effect it. 

 The Committee has evidently executed this part of its task 

 under that impression. Blany things of a grander, perhaps, or 

 of a more exciting character, might have been attempted : we 

 doubt if any can be discovered more useful, or so suited to the 

 nature of the resources and facilities we here enjoy. Any man 

 possessing the common qualities of firmness and caution, with ade- 

 quate resources, and in favourable circumstances — in none other 

 •ould it be attempted, may run a race frOm parallel to parallel, 

 and tell that a mountain rises to the right and a river flows to 

 the left, and that barbarian life is of a firey temperament 

 under the Equator, aud he might display to our breathless 



