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your explorations are to be conducted, and as to the objects to 

 which your attention is to be more especially directed. 

 I have the honour to be, Sir, 



Your obedient servant, 



T. J. J. LORANGEE, 



Secretary. 



Henry Y. Hind, Esq., Toronto. 



No. IL 



Secretary's Office, Toronto, 27th April, 1858. 

 Sir, — I have the honour to communicate to you the instructions 

 promised in the last paragraph of my letter to you of the 14th 

 instant, for your guidance in connection with the branch of the 

 expedition to the west of Ked Kiver, which has been committed 

 to your charge. 



2. The instructions contained in that letter will suffice for 

 your guidance up to the time of your arrival at the Eed Eiver 

 settlement, and the present instructions therefore have reference 

 merely to your operations after having left that settlement. 



3. The region of country to which your explorations are to be 

 then directed is that lying to the west of Lake Winnipeg and Eed 

 Eiver, and embraced (or nearly so) between the river Saskatch- 

 ewan and Assinniboine, as far west as " South Branch House," 

 on the former river, which latter place will be the most westerly 

 point of your exploration. 



4. It will be your endeavour to procure all the information in 

 your power respecting the Greology, Natural History, Topography, 

 and Meteorology of the region above indicated. 



5. As to the general character of the geological portion of 

 your labours, it is unnecessary to add anything to the instructions 



