PEfER LOEFLING. 8t 



jjnofefTors were at the head, each of one fcienc£, 

 viz. i. a geographer ; 2. a natural philofopher i 

 3. a botanift ; and 4 V one acquainted with 

 commercial affairs. Each profeffor had four af- 

 firmants, and befides them were four furgeons, 

 &nd many other people intended for this expe- 

 dition. Don Juan Ignatio Madariaga and Don 

 Jofeph Solano both Capitans de Fregatta, with 

 Don Jofeph Santos Cabrera were for the geogra- 

 phical department. Loefling was the head bo-* 

 f anift, and had Don Benito P alt or, from the Py- 

 renees, and Don Antonio Condal, froni Barcellona, 

 two yourtg phyficians, for his affiftants : and 

 two other youths, born at Madrid, of Wealthy 

 parents, called Don Bruno Salvador, and Don 

 San Juan de Dios Caftel, were interided for 

 draughtfmen and pupils in natural hiftory. 

 The other departments were filled up in propor- 

 tion, fo that this might have turned out one of the 

 grander! and moil ufeful undertakings if pro* 

 perly conducted and executed. Loefling got 

 twenty thoufand reales de Vdloi towards his 

 equipment iri linen, cloaths and other itecefTa- 

 ries. His lalary was incrfeafed to ten thoufand 

 reales per annum, and that of each of the phy- 

 ficians under him, was fixed at five thoufand 

 fcales. The regulation of the limits between 

 the Spaniards and the Portugueze- in North A- 

 Vol. II. G rperic% 



