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belonging to the class Cryptogamia, which, though certainly bearing 

 a small proportion to phaenogamous plants, were not, it must be ad- 

 mitted, equally attended to. At our second anchorage, Lucky Bay [2] 

 of captain Flinders's chart, in 34° S. lat. and about 4° to the eastward 

 of King George's Sound; we remained only three days, but even in that 

 short time added upwards of 100 species to our former collection. 



Goose-Island Bay [3], in the same latitude and hardly one degree to 

 the eastward of the second anchorage, where our stay was also very 

 short, afforded us but few new plants; and the remaining parts of the 

 South Coast [4 — 19], on five distant points of which we landed, as well 

 as on seven of its adjacent Islands, were still more barren, altogether 

 producing only 200 additional species. The smallness of this number is 

 to be accounted for, partly, no doubt, from the less favourable season 

 in which this part of the coast was examined; but it appeared to depend 

 also in a considerable degree on its greater sterility, and especially that 

 of its islands. 



Of New South Wales, or the East Coast of New Holland, scarcely any 

 part beyond the tropic was examined in the voyage; our first landing 

 after leaving Port Jackson [20] being at Sandy Cape [21], in nearly 

 25° S. lat. Between this and 21° S. lat. we had many, and upon the 

 whole, favourable opportunities for observation, especially at Port Cur- 

 tis, Keppel Bay [22] , Port Bowen, Strong-tide Passage, Shoal-water Bay 

 [23 — 24], and Broad Sound [23 — 24], the survey of which was complet- 

 ed; we landed also on two of the Northumberland and on one of the 

 Cumberland Isles [25]. 



On the North Coast we landed on Good's Island [26], one of the 

 Prince af Wales' Isles of captain Cook; for a few hours at Coen River 

 [27 = Pennef ather River] , on the east side of the Gulph of Capentaria; 

 and in more favourable circumstances on many of the islands and some 

 points of the mainland on the west side of this Gulph. Several of the 

 group called the Company's Islands in the chart, the shores of Melville 

 Bay, of Caledon Bay [31], and a small part of Arnhem Bay [32] were 

 also examined. 



We then left the coast, owing to the decayed state of the ship, which, 

 on our return to Port Jackson, was surveyed and pronounced unfit for 

 the prosecution of the voyage. 



Captain Flinders having, in consequence of this, determined to repair 

 immediately to England, for the purpose of obtaining another vessel to 

 complete the objects of the expedition; Mr. Bauer and myself agreed 



