6 hydrographer's instructions. 



a portion of those more explicit directions furnished 

 by the! Hydrog-rapher, Eear-Admiral Sir Francis 

 Beaufort. 



Extracts from Hydrographic Instructions for 

 Capt. Stanley. 



" On your arrival at Sydney you should take the earliest 

 opportunity of communicating with Lieut. Yule, in order 

 to learn how much has been executed, by the Bramble 

 and her tender, of the orders which he received from Capt. 

 Blackwood, and you will no doubt avail yourself of his long 

 experience in those seas in digesting your plan of future 

 operations. 



"A letter from the Colonial OflSce having recently 

 apprized their Lordships that it is the intention of her 

 Majesty's Government to form a new settlement at Harvey 

 Bay, and having requested that it may be duly examined 

 with that view, your first undertaking, after leaving Syd- 

 ney, should be to repair to that place, and to make an 

 efficient survey of the whole bay, extending it down through 

 the channel into Wide Bay, and marking the. best anchor- 

 ages, the most convenient landing-places, and the several 

 parts where water may be found. And as it appears that 

 Colonel Barney, R.E. is engaged in the same inquiry, it 

 win be prudent to act in. concert with him, and to give him 

 a copy of such parts of it as may suit his purposes. 



'"^In your way to this district, and indeed on every part 

 of the shores of Australia, you should lose no fair opportu- 

 nity of verifying the positions— of multiplying the sound- 

 ings—and of improving the smaller details of the coast as 

 laid down by Capt. P. P. King in his excellent Survey, 

 but which he had not time or means to eifect with the 

 same accm-acy that wUl be in your power. By carrying 



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