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No other fpecies of quadrupeds were obferved here, but the 

 Vpoffum, Hiji. ^mdr. N" 223, and the Kangaroo, N* 229. Captain 

 Cook very humanely turned into the woods a boar and fow pig, 

 which if they efcape the fight of the natives for fome years, may 

 prove the flocking of the country with animals equally vifeful to 

 the inhabitants and cafual vifitants. 



Abundance of fifli are found on the coaft, as the elephant 

 fifli, rays, foles, flounders, and the Atherina Hepjetus *, which 

 extends to our fhores. 



I SHALL form as complete a lift of the birds of this amazing 

 trail, as I may be enabled from the late difcoveries, and fliall 

 only mention here, as perhaps local, the White Eagle t, the Superb 

 Warbler X-t remarkable for the rich blue of its frontal ere ft and 

 cheeks, and the Van Diemen''s warbler ||. 



The firft port which Captain Cook put into in the voyage of Adventure 



Bay 



T777, was Adventure Bay, in Lat. 43° 21', between the Fluted Cape 

 and Cape Frederick Henry. He continued his voyage towards 

 New Zealand. The coaft to the north had been explored by 

 Captain Furneaux, who pafled in his way fouthward Maria's 

 ifland, Schoutens, and other places named by Tafinan. As we ad- 

 vance farther north, we find Furneaux's and the Sijlcrs. The 

 laft is in Lat. 39° 45', and Long. 149", the land from which he 

 bore away for Nezv Zealand. 



In Lat. 38" fouth, Long. 2] 1°, we arrive ofFCape Hicks, which 1770. Capk 

 may be celebrated as the firft place ever difcovered on the eaftern 

 coaft of New Holland; this great event took place on April 19th 



Hicks. 



* Br. Zool. in. No. 157. tab. Ixv. 

 X Latham, iv. tab. liii. 



Vol. IV. P 



■f- Latham, vli. p. 112. 

 Ij Latham, vii. p. 187. 



1770, 



