There Is Not One Deed In Those Days To Be Compared With It, And To Whoever May Undertake So Praiseworthy

And so devoted a task, I wish that success, which Heaven sometimes vouchsafes to those who are actuated by the

First of motives - the public good; and the best of principles - a reliance on Providence. I would I myself could undertake such a task, but fear that may not be. However, there is a gentleman among us, who is auxious to undertake such a journey. He has calculated that in taking a party five hundred miles into the interior, the expense would not be more than 300 pounds and the price of ten horses. At a meeting held some time ago, on this very subject, about half that sum was subscribed. - His Excellency the Governor has kindly promised to give 100 pounds, and two horses - and I think we may very soon make up the remainder; and thus may set out an expedition which may explore the as yet unknown interior of this vast continent, which may be the means, by discovery, of conferring a lasting benefit on the colony - and hand down to posterity the name of the person who undertakes it."

On the same day I received a note from the private secretary, stating that the Governor wished to see me, and upon calling on His Excellency I had a long and interesting interview on the subject of the expedition, in the course of which arrangements were proposed and a plan of operations entered into.

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