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the North of Europe, or the Southern or Wcilern parts of 

 North-America, as far as may be done with perfed fecurity to 

 the property and intercft of their owners ; and that they may 

 caufe a fair printed copy thereof, with which they will be 

 furniihed, to be ftuck up in their refpedive cabbins. 



By order of the Chamber, 



JOHN BROOME, Prefident. 

 Attejl. WM. LAIGHT, Secretary. 



INSTRUCTIONS to Captains of Vejfe Is failing to any part of 

 Afiay Africa^ the North of Europe^ the Southern or Weflern 

 parts of North- America, 



Firfl. PROCURE a fmall quantity, not exceeding one 

 quart, of thofe kinds of grain which make the principal 

 food of the inhabitants, and this even though it fliould be 

 wheat, barley, rye, oats, or maize ; for though thofe grains 

 are common in this country, yet there are varieties which may 

 be extremely important, as was inftanced in the accidental 

 introduftion of the white-bearded wheat, which was found to 

 refift the infe£l: when every other fpecies was deflroyed by it. 



Second. Procure alfo fmall quantities of the feeds of thofe 

 kinds of pulfe and legumens which are of any eftimation in 



