264 Details respeci'uig Baudi/i's foycge 



which is inserted in the journal of C. Ilamclln, the com- 

 jnander of the Naturaliste. 



The same corvette sailed along the western coast of New 

 Holland from lat. 32° soulh, which is that of the Isle of 

 Rottenest as far as the Bay of Seals, or of Dirk llartoge; 

 and a chart of that coast was constructed on five large sheets. 

 'Jliis chai-l, however, is nierelv a sketch made at sight, and 

 can serve only to give a general idea of the course. It con- 

 tains none of those details exhibited in the Dutch chart of 

 the same coast. 



The Naturaliste having remained some time in the Bay 

 of Seals, waiting for the Geographc, took that opportunity 

 of exploring this bav, and the result is a chart verv difierent 

 ^rom any before published, it deserves consideration, and 

 may be useful to navigators w ho in future ma\' toucli at 

 this bay, in the diiTerent oulpln^ of which thev will find re- 

 sources of which no idea was before entertained. 



From the Bay of Seals the Naturaliste steered a direct 

 course for the Island of Timor, without following the coast 

 of Endracht's Land or that of De Witt's, and arrived in 

 Coupang Bay on the 'JOth of September, having left the 

 Bay of Seals on the 3d. Captain Baudin has added to the 

 cliarts which he sent home, ccjpies of some Dutch charts of 

 the islands of the Indiaj\ Archipelago, which he made 

 during his stay at Timor. 



The two corvettes left TiiTior in company on the 13th of 

 November 1801, and proceeded to D'Kntrecastcaux's chan- 

 nel on the south-east coast of \'an Dieuien's Land, where 

 they arrived on the 13th of January 180:2. They explored 

 every part of that channel with the greatest care ; and cap- 

 tain Baudin announces that thev found nothing in it to be 

 rectified. " It is hardly possible," savs he, "to find any 

 work more correct, or better executed, than that of the geo- 

 graphers who have made us acquainted with these places 

 for touching at; and we shall be well satisfied if we hear 

 the navigators who succeed us give the same account of our 

 labours, in regard to the coasts which no one ever visited 

 before us." 



, Captain Baudin only observes that the land called Tas- 

 man's Land, in the chart of D'Entreca^teaux's channel, is 

 not an island ; and that it is joined to \'an Diemen's Land 

 by an isthmus of aljout SO or 100 paces in breadth. It is 

 to be observed thatD'Entrecasteaux's boats did not proceed 

 so tar in this chaiuie] as those of captain Baudin ; and the 

 observation he makes in regard to Tasman's Land is correct. 

 1 le observes aiso that the Bay of Frederick Hendrick is not 

 in the place where it is laid down m D'Entrecasteaux's chart, 



and 



