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Instructions to Flinders from Admiralty for voyage of discovery in HMS Investigator (FLI03) Page 13


any Port in England, to give notice
of her arrival to His Majesty's
Botanic Gardener at Kew, and to
transmit to him a List and State
of the said Plants &c, which the
Gardener employed under your
Orders, is to furnish you with for
that purpose.

      Given under our Hands
the 22d of June 1801
            [signatures of St Vincent (First Lord of the Admiralty),
            and T Troubridge (Admiralty Commissioner) have been cut away]
To


Matthew Flinders Esqr
Commander of His Majesty's       [signed] J Markham
Sloop Investigator

      at Spithead


By Command of their Lordships


      [signature of Evan Nepean (Secretary to the Admiralty) has been cut away]


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Related people
Dalrymple, Alexander
Dampier, William
Flinders, Matthew
Markham, John
Jervis, John, Earl of St Vincent
Nepean, Evan
Troubridge, (Admiral) Sir Thomas

Places
Madeira
Cape of Good Hope
(King) George 3rd Harbour
Mavis Enderby
Sydney Cove
King George's Sound
Gulf of Carpentaria
Torres Straits
Tryal Rocks
Timor
Cape Flattery
Fejees
Bass Strait

Vessels
Lady Nelson
Investigator
Porpoise

Words and phrases
East India Co

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