The Account , See. 
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his Majesty’s command, the memoir was put into the hands of 
Sir Joseph Banks, P. R. S. accompanied with such marks of 
royal munificence, as speedily obtained all the valuable instru- 
ments and apparatus necessary for carrying the design into 
immediate execution. 
General Roy, to whose care the conduct of this important 
business was committed, lived to go through the several ope- 
rations pointed out in the memoir, the particulars of which 
have been detailed at great length in the Philosophical Trans- 
actions, where they will remain a testimony of his zeal and 
ability in conducting so arduous an undertaking at an advanced 
period of life. The further prosecution of the survey of the 
island, to which the operations hitherto performed might be 
deemed only as subservient or introductory, seemed to expire 
with the General. 
The liberal assistance which his Grace the Duke of Rich- 
mond had on all occasions given to this undertaking ; and par- 
ticularly the essential services performed by Captain Fiddes, 
and Lieutenant Bryce, of the corps of royal engineers, in the 
survey and measurement of the base of verification on Romney 
Marsh, are acknowledged by General Roy in the strongest 
terms. A considerable time had elapsed since the General’s 
decease without any apparent intention of renewing the busi- 
ness, when a casual opportunity presented itself to the Duke 
of Richmond of purchasing a very fine instrument, the work- 
manship of Mr. Ramsden, of similar construction to that 
which was used by General Roy, but with some improve- 
ments ; as also two new steel chains of one hundred feet each, 
made by the same incomparable artist. Circumstances thus 
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