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The Committee, therefore, recommend that this third 
object be attended to only in case that it be necessary to 
send waggons back for supplies, or in case that in the home- 
ward progress of the party there be room for such articles, 
without incommoding it in its other operations. 
[ Here follows a list of the members composing the 
Committee. | 
It must always be remembered that such directions con- 
template adaptations of a two-fold 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 exe- 
cuted. The end ought not only to be a useful end, and the 
means well fitted to reach it, but all ought also to conform 
to the cherished views, to the disposition, capabilities, and 
general preparation of those who are to effect it. The 
Committee have evidently executed this part of its task under 
that impression. Many 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 adequate resources, and in favourable circum- 
stances—in none other could 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 fiery temperament under the equator, and he 
might display to our breathless wonder the jostling dangers 
of climate, privation, and hostility, in the prolific abundance 
natural to those regions, and leave us little wiser than 
