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In closing tins narrative I feel it my duty to the officers employed
under my command, particularly to those whose immediate assistance 1
have acknowledged in my introduction, briefly to enumerate these services,
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 e.xpe-
dition.
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