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S. S. Feb 29 1791
My Lord
Enclosd your Lordship will receive the opinions you did me the honour to require of me Concerning the mode of Carrying on the Survey of the N W Coast with as much [of be] in the most speedy & effectual manner consistent as well as with the degree of accuracy required in an undertaking intended with as much dispatch as is Consistent with the degree of accuracy required to be made of a general nature
to which these I have added General instructions for Surveyors which I trust will be Found are intended to Point out the readiest and most effectual modes of doing the work Facilitate the work as well and also to secure to Government what they always ought to be posessd of a series of proofs of the degree of accuracy with which it has been carried on done to which they may at any future time refer
The Temptation of Substituting Conjecture for fact in Laying down the Shores of on unknown Country is so great especialy in Ports which at times when from the circumstances of winds & weather it may be is difficult to approach near to the Land at a Particular Period that I doubt whether any Surveyor has Ever Wholly resisted it man ought to be Trusted without a check at & in the Present case as Every inch of creek on the the Coast will be repeatedly examind for the purpose of by those employed in the Collecting [ferns?] & as those who undertake so the men the merchants in consequence of the distance & danger of the a voyage find it necessary to make Horeto Employ men acquainted with a large Share of the Elements