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INTRODUCTION. 
Memorandum. 
The following will be among the most important sub- 
jects, on which it will be more immediately your pro- 
vince, assisted by your officers, to endeavour to obtain 
information on any occasion which may offer. 
The general nature of the climate, as to heat, cold, 
moisture, winds, rains, periodical seasons ; the tempera- 
ture regularly registered from Fahrenheit s thermometer, 
as observed at two or three periods of the day. 
The direction of the mountains, their names, general 
appearance as to shape ; whether detached or continuous 
in ranges. 
The animals, whether birds, beasts, or fishes; insects, 
reptiles, #c., distinguishing those that are wild from 
those which are domesticated. 
The vegetables, and particularly those that are appli- 
cable to any useful purposes, whether in medicine, dye- 
ing, carpentry, fyc. ; any scented or ornamental woods, 
adapted for cabinet work and household furniture, and 
more particularly such woods as may appear to be use- 
ful in ship-building; hard woods for tree-nails, block- 
sheaves, fyc . 9 of all which it would be desirable to pro- 
cure small specimens labelled and numbered, so that 
an easy reference may be made to them in the jour- 
nal, to ascertain the quantities in which they are found ; 
