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the instruments for the fixed magnetic observatory in- 
tended for that station. . . . 
“ At the Cape of Good Hope the instruments and ob- 
servers for the second fixed magnetic observatory are to 
be carefully landed; and having completed your water, 
and replaced the stores which you have expended, you 
are to proceed to the eastward, touching at Marion and 
Crozet Isles for observations, if the weather and other 
circumstances should be favourable for that purpose. 
“ As we have provided the expedition with invariable 
pendulums, and all the necessary apparatus for determin- 
ing the figure of the earth; and as it is desirable that 
these observations should be made at several points, more 
especially in high southern latitudes, it is probable that 
Kerguelen Island will be found well suited to that pur- 
pose, as well as to an extensive series of magnetic and 
other observations; but the selection of these stations is 
freely confided to your judgment. 
“ If the operations at Kerguelen Island, or at such 
other places as you may select, should be completed be- 
fore the end of February, 1840, you will possibly find the 
sea sufficiently open to proceed directly to the southward, 
to examine those places where indications of land have 
been noticed, and to make the requisite observations on 
any out-lying islands that you may be able to discover; 
but, at that advanced period of the season, you are cau- 
tiously to avoid being beset in the ice, as your early 
arrival at Van Diemen’s Land is of far greater impor- 
tance to the great object of the expedition than any re- 
sults you could hope there to obtain. . 
“ At Van Diemen’s Land you are to communicate with 
Lieutenant-Governor Sir John Franklin, who will have 
been instructed to prepare instruments for the third mag- 
