I have to acknowledge the receipt of your Despatch,
N 123, of the
25
of March last, containing an account of the progress of
British
Columbia since the date of your last general Report, and enclosing a
letter from
M Downie stating the result of explorations
which![Manuscript image Manuscript image](https://hcmc.uvic.ca/~coldesp/jpg_scans/jpg_thumbnail/rg7_g8c_08/rg7_g8c_08_00039v.jpg)
which he
had carried on under your sanction in
Jarvis Inlet and
Desolation Sound.