NEW HOLLAND. 



T NOW digrefs to the ftupendous ifland of iV^w flo//^«^, and 

 •■■ fairly confefs that the zeal of the zoologift has laid hold of me, 

 and that a defire to inveftigate fo fine a field, has made me wil- 

 lingly fubmit to the impulfe. I fliall clofe the original fubjecl by 

 returning to the Molucca iflands, and breathe my laft words in 

 their fpicy air^ or their latitude. Little hiftory is to be expelled 

 of the land I now vifit ; brief accounts of the various difcoverers 

 is all that can be given till we arrive on the eaftern coafl ; which 

 the unfortunate acquaintance with in 1770, has peopled with the 

 profligate outcafts of our country, cruelly redeemed from the 

 gibbet to undergo a Hngering life of nakednefs and famine in 

 this moft diftant land. 



New Holland is in length from the north point, in Lat. 11° to V^ast Extent, 

 46° 30' fouth, about two thoufand miles, and its greateft breadth 

 from its moft weftern part, in Long. 109° 30', to its mofl eaftern 

 in Long. 152° 30', about three thoufand miles. Its extent in the 

 fouthern parts is unknown, as much of the weftern fide remains 

 to be difcovered. This vaft tradt proves equal in fize (according 



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