NEW HOLLAND. 



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ten miles. We here nearly rejoin the place we left to perform 



our circuit of the country. The land' on the weftern extremity 



of Endeavour ftreight, and the eaftern point of Arnbeim Land, 



forms the entrance into the great gulph of Carpentaria, which Carpentaria. 



runs due fouth far into the land. It received its name from 



the Butch general Carpenter, the zealous promoter of difcoveries 



in thefe parts about the beginning of the laft century. 



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