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it when the weather shall be moderate, use your best endeavours to discover such Harbours as may be in those parts; & in case you should discover any creek or opening likely to lead to an inland Sea or Strait, you are at liberty either to examine it, or not, as you shall judge it most expedient, until a more favorable opportunity shall enable you so to do.
When it shall appear to you necessary, you are to repair to Sydney Cove for the purpose of refreshing your people, refitting the Sloop under your command, & consulting with the Governor of New South Wales upon the best means of carrying on the Survey of the s.d Coast; & having received from him such information as he may be able to communicate, & taken under your command the Lady Nelson Tender which you may expect to find at Sydney Cove, you are to recommence your Survey by first diligently examining the Coast from Basses Straits to King George the third Harbour, which you may do, either by proceeding along shore to the Westward, or, in case you should think it more expedient, by proceeding first to King George's Sound, & carrying on your Survey from thence to the Eastward.
You are to repair from time to time when the Season will no longer admit of your carrying on the Survey, to Sydney Cove, from whence you are to return in the execution of these Instructions, so soon as circumstances will enable you so to do.
You are to be very diligent in your examination of the sd Coast, & to take particular care to insert in your Journal every circumstance that may be usefull to a full & complete knowledge