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will hold out, and therefore you will see the great impor- 
tance of observing every possible economy in the expen- 
diture of provisions, and preventing waste of every kind. 
1 1 . You are to keep a detailed account of your proceedings in 
a journal, in which all observations and occurrences of every 
kind, with all their circumstances, however minute, are to be 
carefully noted down. You are to be particular in descri- 
bing the general face of all the country through which you 
pass, the direction and shape of the mountains, whether 
detached or in ranges, together with the bearings and esti- 
mated distances of the several mountains, hills, or eminences 
from each other. You are likewise to note the nature of 
the climate, as to heat, cold, moisture, winds, rains, &c, and 
to keep a register of the temperature from Fahrenheit’s ther- 
mometer, as observed at two or three periods of each day. 
The. rivers, with their several branches, their direction, is 
velocity, breadth, and depth, are carefully to be noted. It 
further expected that you will, as far as may be in your 
power, attend to the animal, vegetable, and mineral pro- 
ductions of the country, noting down every thing that may 
occur to you, and preserving specimens as far as your 
means will admit, especially some of all the ripe seeds 
which you may discover ; when the preservation of speci- 
mens is impossible, drawings or detailed accounts of them, 
are very desirable. 
12, You will note the description of the several people whom 
you may meet, the extent of the population, their means 
of subsistence, their genius and disposition, the nature of 
their amusements, their diseases and remedies, their objects 
