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Preparing them for their the board of Longitude thought proper to engage two Astronomers & even the House of Commons thought the undertaking of so much importance as to vote a sum of four thousand pounds to enable Dr Lind to accompany us & assist us with his extensive knowledge of Natural Philosophy & mechanicks
# News were we seventeen people were to go in two ships besides their usual complement of men & an extraordinary establishment of Officers which was thought necessary on account of the difficulties & dangers which we were likely to experience in Seas of which we know no circumstance but that of their being Tempestuous
Fourteen of these were to go in the Principal ship for them the navy Board orderd proper accommodations to be prepard which your Lordship Saw & I flatter myself did not think them too large, even the great Cabbin as that room which was intended to be the at all times the