The inclosed may perhaps merit enquiry.

persons to be consulted on the survey of the coast.

Robert Patterson

Ellicott

Briggs

Garnet

Bp. Madison

Hasler

Moore of the treasury

it would be well to enquire of them also whether they know any persons whom they can recommend as capable of acting in the different parts. I presume a capability of determining the longitude by lunar observations will be a good test.