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System, and in the Latin language. The first volume, which 

 is already prepared for the press, includes the first five classes, 

 and amongst them are more than 100 new species. 



The narrative of the journey, which is to appear in the 

 German language, gives a full description of the Altaic 

 Mountains, as respects their natural history, statistics, geo- 

 graphical situation, &c. &c. Many observations on the 

 Entomology of the country will be there given, and descrip- 

 tions of the new species of the Coleopterous tribes. 



REMARKS ON THE BOTANY, &c. OF THE BANKS 

 OF SWAN RIVER, ISLE OF BUACHE, BAIE 

 GEOGRAPHE, AND CAPE NATURALISTE. 



By Mr. Charles Eraser, Colonial Botanist in New South 



Wales. 



[The attention of this country has been of late considerably 

 directed to the Swan River, on the west coast of New Hol- 

 land, as a suitable situation for a British Colony. Many of 

 our countrymen are already gone with a view to settling 

 there, and grants of land on liberal terms are offered upon 

 certain, but very judicious conditions, by His Majesty's 

 Government. The remarks, therefore, of Mr. Eraser, upon 

 the soil, climate, vegetable productions, aspect of the country, 

 &c. cannot fail to prove interesting to the general reader, as 

 well as to the man of science. Previous to the expedition 

 which Mr. Fraser accompanied, I am not aware that any 

 naturalists, except those of the French Voyage of Discovery, 

 have ever visited the Swan River ; and all their investigations 

 have been attended with such disastrous circumstances, 

 pardy, it would appear, from mismanagement, and partly 

 from natural causes, that their means of observation were 

 thereby very much limited. 



Swan River is situated in lat. 32" 4' 31" S., long. 115o 46' 

 43" E. of Greenwich, in that part of the west coast of New 

 Holland called Edel's Land. It empties itself into the ocean 

 at one extremity of a semicircular bay, whose other extremity 



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