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Nor does it appear that you need be apprehensive that you will 
have to pass through an extensive and sickly delta ; for it has 
been reported to us by those who have entered the Bay of 
Cameroons that the river is seen to issue from between high and 
sound banks. 
Another point to which we have to direct your attention in 
this quarter is the Cameroons Mountain, which it has been 
asserted is an island similar in formation to Fernando Po, and 
separated from the main land by narrow channels communi- 
cating with the mouths of the Eio del Rey. Its extensive base 
is said to be fertile and populous, and its height of 12,000 feet 
offers every variety of temperature, with forests of timber fit for 
the largest scantling; while at its foot the Amboises Islands 
afford a secure anchorage, untainted by Mangrove exhalations, 
and enjojing the full effect of the sea-breeze. If these assertions 
be correct, it would seem to be a place most singularly adapted 
for any agricultural establishment that may he the result of this 
expedition, and they will therefore deserve your careful exami- 
nation. 
It is our further direction to you that the officers employed on 
every species of detached service, whether by land or water, 
should present to you a full report of all tlieir proceedings, 
accompanied by plans and views. You will also insist on the 
daily projection of all surveying work, never suffering it to fall 
into arrear; and you will take care that the several series of 
observations, in the various departments of science to which 
your attention may be directed, shall be so clearly and distinctly 
recorded in tabular or other forms that no data may be wanting 
for future computation. You have been liberally supplied with 
the most approved instruments for every purpose connected with 
geography and hydrography, as well as for extending to A frica 
those magnetic and moteorologlc investigations, which are now 
pursued with so much activity in all quarters of the world. 
Botanists, geologists, and gentlemen, whose tastes are devoted to 
various branches of national knowledge, accompany the Expedi- 
tion ; and, in order to carry on all these numerous inquiries in 
such a manner as to obtain the largest return with the least 
fatigue, we recommend you early in the voyage to organize the 
