Voyages of Difcovery. I9I 



inig he feems to bear with impatience, and makes every effort 

 to tear it off. As long as he is permitted he remains lying 

 on the ground naked, with his head low, and in a polture 

 which appears to be extremely conlirained. 



VOYAGES OF DISCOVERY. 



I. His majefty's (hip the Inveftigator, of 22 suns, which 

 had been preparing for foine months before, failed from the 

 Nore on Monday the 20th of July, on a voyage of difcovery 

 to the fouth-weft of New Holland. She was to have failed 

 fome time ago, but it was thought advifable to procure firft 

 the protection of the .French government, to prevent the 

 objeel of the voyage from being defeated by any of the 

 common accidents of war; and fome delay was occafioned 

 before the neceffary papers were procured. The Inveftigator 

 is commanded by lieutenant Flinders, to whom the world is 

 indebted for feveral difcoveries made in that quarter; having 

 been fent from Jackfon's Bay, and failed round that country 

 known by the name of Van Diemen's Ifland, pafling through 

 the (trait which feparates it from New Holland, to which he 

 gave the name of Bafs's Strait. He is now to examine the 

 whole coaft of New Holland; to difcover what large bays, 

 but efpecially what rivers are to be found there ; as it is na- 

 tural to fuppofe that fo large an ifland, or, more corre&ly 

 fpeaking, fo extenfive a confinent, (being conflderably larger 

 than alfEurope,) muft have many fucb, which may enable 

 him to penetrate far into the interior. 



Perfons verfed in aftronomy, natural hiftory, mineralogy, 

 Sec. and able draftsmen, accompany the expedition. 



II. The following is an extract of a letter from captain 

 Baudin, now on a. voyage of difcovery, dated on board le 

 Geographe, Ifle of France, March 20th : 



" We entered this port yefterday ; and I embrace the 

 opportunity of a Swedifh veffel, juft about to fail, to inform 

 you of our arrival at this colony, after a paflage of four 

 months and two days, from Teneriffe. We have been al- 

 ternately diitreffed by contrary winds and calms; yet no kind 

 of malady has appeared on board either of the two veflels, 

 and all, without exception, have enjoyed perfect health. 

 Our voyage, very unintcrefting in regard to geography, has 

 ^been highly interefting in regard to natural hiltory : we have 

 collected more than two hundred new and hitherto unknown 

 objects, which to connoifleurs will occaflon as much afto- 

 nifhment as pleasure." 



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