Hijiory of AJltonoiny for the Year i80i2* 21 1 



Straits of Bafle. Captain Flinders has fent home his ob- 

 fervations, and a chart of thofe parts of New Holland which 

 he vifitfd. 



Captain Flinders made a difcovery between Van Diemen'g 

 Land and New South Wales, of which inrormation was re- 

 ceived in March 1802 : Governor King's Kland, Cape Alban 

 Otway, Portland Bay, Cape Northiunberland. 



Jofeph Joachim de Ferrer has fent me feveral pofitions ob- 

 ferved on the Miffiffippi and on tlie Ohio, which will be of 

 the more importance as the French government is employed 

 with the means of deriving benefit from that new colony, 

 which may be attended with immenfe advantages, as Raynal 

 has fliown in his H'ljloire Pk'dofophique. 



The Voyage to the Northern Part of Afiatic Riiffia, the 

 Frozen Ocean, the Sea of Anadir, and the Coafts of Ame- 

 rica, from 1785 to 1794, by commodore Billings, tranflated 

 by Caftera, in two volumes quarto, has made us acquainted 

 with countries before undefcribed or defined. The fliores of 

 the Koufina have been traverfed : a chart by M. Bauer, and 

 Arrowfmith, the Englifh geographer, is added. The officers 

 complain of the commander, who would not allow them to 

 penetrate further north, notwithftanding the inftruftions he 

 had received to fearch for a paflage through the Frozen 

 Ocean. 



Travels into the interior Parts of Africa in 1797 and 1798, 

 by Frederic Horneman, has been publiflied. Horneman 

 proceeded from Cairo to Mazoul. Another French edition, 

 with additions by C. Langles, is in forwardnefs. 



Geography has been enriched alfo by A Voyage to Senegal 

 by C. Durand, one volume in quarto, with many plates. 

 The author was a long time at Senegal ; and I have men- 

 tioned his refearches in a memoir on Africa. 



M. Sutzen, a phyfician, accompanied by M. Jacobzen, a 

 furgeon, is alfo preparing to penetrate into the interior parts 

 of Africa. They have been furniflied wi^th obfervations by 

 baron Von Zach, of Gotha. The duke of Gotha has given 

 them a fextant of feven inches radius, and a lime-keeper by 

 Emery ; three artificial horizons, with their levels; an achro- 

 matic tclefcope of twenty inches, and two and a quarter 

 inches aperture ; a declination compals, a mariner's compafs, 

 and a camera obfcura. 



M. Sutzen will proceed from Conftantinople to the eaftern 

 coaft of Africa, where he intends to join fome of the cara- 

 vans of Zinguebar or Moncemugi. He hopes to be four or 

 five yearn abfent. (Von Zach's Journal for Auguft 1802.) 



Oil the 17th of Julv we faw don Domingo Badia, com- 

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