for the Purpose of making Dhcoverie.u $67 



Captain Baudin has joined to these charts twelve views 

 well executed, and by which he has endeavoured to give 

 an idea of the nature' of the country. They relate only to 

 Leeumn's Land ; but he promises others of the same kind 

 in reo;ard to e,very pari of New HolUxnd which he has vi- 

 sited." 



On his departure from Port Jackson he purposed, 

 1st, To explore King's Island lately discovered in Basse's 

 Straits, and situated to iheniorth-west of Hunter's Isles. 



tid, The large island called Kangaroo Island, the southern 

 part of which is unknown. 



3d, The two large gulphs situated to the north of Kan- 

 garoo Island, and winch he can examine in every part by 

 means of the Kasuarina, a small vessel which he procured 

 at Port Jackson, and which draws little water. 



4th, The northern part of the Islands of St. Peter and 

 St. Francis, and where the discoveries he has made unite 

 with those of D'Entrecasteaux. 



5th, Leeuwin's Land, and that of Endracht, which hu 

 has already seen, but not in a satisfactory manner. 



dth, Dc Witt's Land, where he knows he shall experience 

 ereat difficulties, but where he liopcs to fmd also interesting 

 objects. 



7th, In tlie last place, the Gulph of Carpentaria, rhich 

 will be the boundary of his researches. 



The two vessels sailed from Port Jackson, Nov. 18, 1S02, 

 twenty-five months after their departure from Fiance, and 

 on the 6ih of December anchored in the Bay of Sea Ele^- 

 phauts in the eastern part of King's Island in kit. 39" 5!', 

 long. 141° 34'. 



Two davs after, captain Ilamelin, having received his 

 ultimate o'rders, separated from the Geographe and the 

 Kasuarina in order to proceed to France. 



When on the point of sailing, an English galliot an- 

 chored near them. This vessel h^ad been dispat<.hed for the 

 purpose of exploring Port Philips on the south-west coast 

 of the Bay of Frederick Mendrick, in Van Diemen's Land, 

 and the river in the north of the same land very near i:>'En- 

 trecasieaux's channel ; to construct charts of these places ; 

 and to wait at the latter for the arrival of the Porpoise, 

 which was to carry thither the troops necesfiary for forming 

 a settlement. Thev learned also by this Vessel, that the 

 Lady Nelson briff, 'which sailed from Port Jackson along 

 with the Investigator, had returned thither, having lost, all 

 her anchors, and been obliged to make one of wood. 1 hey 

 had separated from captain Flinders on liie '2d of October 



1803 



