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VOYAGE TO THE PACIFIC AND BEEEING’S STRAIT. 
CHAP. In closing this narrative I feel it my duty to the officers employed 
under my command, particularly to those whose immediate assistance I 
have acknowledged in my introduction, briefly to enumerate these ser- 
vices, as they are of such a nature that they cannot appear in a narrative, 
and as my professional habits have unqualified me for executing, with 
justice to them, or with satisfaction to myself, the task of authorship 
which has devolved upon me as commander of the expedition, and 
which I should not have undertaken had I not felt confident that the 
candid public would look more to what has been actually done, than 
to the mode in which the proceedings have been detailed. In the 
Appendix I have collected as much information as the nature of the 
work would admit. Besides the interesting matter which it will be 
found to contain, the expedition has surveyed almost every place it 
touched at, and executed plans of fourteen harbours, of which two 
are new ; of upwards of forty islands, of which six are discoveries ; and 
of at least six hundred miles of coast, one-fifth of which has not before 
been delineated. There have also been executed drawings and views 
of headlands, too numerous to appear in one work ; and I hope shortly 
to be able to lay before the public two volumes of natural history. 
In taking my leave, it is with the greatest pleasure I reflect that 
the Board of Admiralty again marked the sense they entertained of 
our exertions, by a further liberal promotion at the close of the expe- 
dition. 
END OF THE NARRATIVE. 
