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the bad quality of our provifions made us feel 

 an urgent want: but the fca-bree/.e fet in, and 

 deceived our hopes, by nuiking the water rife 

 nearly to the fame height that it would have 

 reached at the top of the flood ; we were there- 

 fore obliged to content ourfelves with our fait 

 provifions. 



The cafcade of the South Cape, which, when 

 Furneaux landed in this country, carried a great 

 deal of water to the fea, was almofl: dry at the 

 time of our being here. However, it was very 

 evident, from the traces of the torrent, that its 

 flream muft be confiderable in the rainy feafon. 



We found dead, on the fliore, a feal, of the 

 fpecies called phoca monachiis. Two violent 

 contufions which it had in the head, made uspre- 

 fume that perhaps it had been dafiied, in fpite of 

 itfelfjagainfl fome rock, by the force of the waves. 



In proceeding towards our anchorage, we 

 met, to the caR-north-can; of the South Cape, 

 with two large ponds; and in keeping along 

 their banks, we faw feveral kangaroo burrows. 

 A new fpecies of ///r;V///jr/ J difplayed its charm- 

 ing flowers on the furface of thefe Rill waters. 

 I was aflonillied that fuch ftagnanr pools did 

 not emit a fetid fmcll, as is generally the cafe : 

 it is probable tliat they are quickly renewed by 

 being fdtered through the grounds. 



It was three o'clock in the afternoon when 

 c 3 we 



