for the Purpose of making Discoveries. 2G3 



After these operations the two corvettes were separated, 

 and did not again meet till they arrived at the Island of 

 Timor; but Ijoth of them sailed along the coast of the 

 Land of Endraeht, which lies to the north of Leeuwin's 

 Land. 



Captain Baudin entered the Bay of Seals on the 27th of 

 June, and remained there till the 13th of July. HereBer- 

 nier, the astronomer, made some observations, which fix the 

 longitude of the northern point of Barren Island at I09" 

 13' 46". The course of the Geographe in this bay and on 

 the coast to the north of it is traced out on a chart con- 

 structed bv C. Boulanger, one of the engineers belonging 

 to the expedition. This chart, however, is only a copy of 

 a Dutch chart given to captain Baudin before his departure, 

 and which C. Boulanger corrected by the results of astrono- 

 mical observations. 



Captain Baudin observes in his memoir, that his first 

 operations in regard to this coast, and that of De Witt's 

 and of Leeuv.in's Land, were not satisfactory ; and he pur- 

 poses to repeat them on his return from Port Jackson. He 

 has therefore sent home none of the charts of the early part 

 of his voyage along these coasts. Among the charts which 

 the Naturaliste has brought home there is only one small 

 chart of a part of the coast of New Holland, where the 

 Geographe landed ; and which is supposed to be on the 

 coast of De Wilt's Land, or of the north-west. This 

 chart, constructed by Rousard, an officer of the marine en-' 

 gineers, is merely a sketch taken at sight, and may give 

 some idea of the observations made on board the Geographe ; 

 though, as captain Baudin announces, it contains oul\' ii"'ig- 

 mcnts of the coasts. He says he transmitted to the minister 

 of the marine, in a letter dated Timor, October 6, 1801, 

 some deta;ls respecting his navigation on the western coasts 

 of New Holland from Leeuwin's Land, and that he then 

 announced that thev were by no means satisfactory. He 

 arrived at Timor, and entered Coupang Bay on the 22d of 

 August ISOI. 



The Naturalist e being separated from the Geographe on 

 the coast of Leeuwin's Land proceeded to the Island of 

 Rottenest, which had been agreed on as the first place of 

 rendezvous in case of separation. The captain explored that 

 island as well as another in the neighbourhood, and which 

 is not marked lu the charts : hecalleil it Isle-aux-Ours. He 

 examined at the same time Swan's Kiver, on the coast of 

 New Holland, opposite to the Isle of Rottenest : some boats 

 \V(.rc ordered to proceed up that river an; far as they possibly 

 couid without danger; and a chail of it was couuraeted, 

 K 4 which 



