ADMIRALTY INSTRUCTIONS. 17 



Nor should the valuable instructions of Captain 

 Beaufort, Hydrographcr to the Admiralty, be for- 

 gotten ; such extracts as may probably prove of 

 interest to the general reader are here subjoined. 



Extracts from Hydrographer's Instructions. 



" The general objects of the expedition which 

 has been placed under your command, having been 

 set forth in their Lordships' orders, it becomes ray 

 duty to enter somewhat more specifically into the 

 nature and details of the service which you are to 

 perform. Their Lordships having expressed the 

 fullest reliance on your zeal and talents, and having 

 cautiously and wisely abstained from fettering you 

 in that division and disposition of your time which 

 the periodic changes of the seasons or the necessities 

 of the vessel may require, it would ill become me to 

 enter too minutely into any of those arrangements 

 which have been so flatteringly left to your discre- 

 tion ; yet, in order to assist you with the results of 

 that experience which has been derived from the 

 many surveys carried on under the direction of the 

 Admiralty, and to ensure that uniform consistency 

 of method in your varied labours, which will so 

 greatly enhance their value, I will briefly touch on 

 some of the most important subjects, and repeat 

 those instructions which their Lordships have in 

 everv former case ratified, and which it is therefore 

 expected you will bear in mind during the whole 

 progress of your survey. 



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