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recommendation, to the command of the ex- chap. 
pedition destined for the North-west coast of , 1 
America.” “ And what,” said the Empress, 
“ has delayed his departure ?” “ He waits, at 
this moment, your Majesty’s orders,” replied the 
Professor. At this the Empress, without any 
reply, and evidently somewhat ruffled, quick- 
ened her pace towards the palace. The next 
morning the necessary supplies came from the 
Minister, with orders that he should set out 
immediately. 
That the expedition might have been con- 
fided to better hands, the public have been 
since informed, by the Secretary Sauer 1 . This 
Professor Pallas lamented to have discovered, 
when it was too late. But the loss sustained 
by any incapacity in the persons employed to 
conduct that expedition, is not equal to that 
which the public suffered by the sudden recall 
of the unfortunate Ledyard: this, it is said, Lcdyard. 
would never have happened, but through the 
jealousy of his own countrymen, whom he 
chanced to encounter as he was upon the 
point of quitting the Eastern continent for 
(0 See Account of an Expedition to the Northern Parts of 
Russia, &e. by Martin Sauer, Secretary to the Expedition. 4to. 
Lond. 1802. 
