xxvili INTRODUCTION. 
It is for several reasons most desirable that you should 
arrive on this coast, and commence your survey as early 
as possible, and you will therefore, when the vessel shall 
be ready, lose no time in proceeding to the unexplored 
coasts; but you are at liberty to commence your survey 
at whichever side you may judge proper, giving a pre- 
ference to that which you think you may be able soonest 
to reach ; but in case you think that indifferent, my 
Lords would wish you to commence by the neighbour- 
hood of the Rosemary Islands. 
Either on your way out, or on returning, you should 
examine the coast between Cape Leeuwin and the Cape 
Gosselin, in M. De Freycinet’s chart ; and generally you 
will observe, that it is very desirable that you should 
visit those ranges of coast which the French navigators 
have either not seen at all, or at too great a distance, to 
ascertain and lay down accurately. 
You will provide yourself at Port Jackson with the 
seeds of such vegetables as it may be considered most 
useful to propagate on the coasts you may visit, and 
you will take measures for sowing or planting them 
in the fittest situations, with a view not only to their 
preservation, but to their being within the observation 
and reach of succeeding navigators. 
You will take care to make duplicate copies of all 
your notes, surveys, and drawings ; and you are to take 
