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and gaining the western coast of the large 
one, our great Circumnavigator determined 
accurately the geographical character, fi- 
gure, and extent of New Zealand, and at 
once dispelled thé favourite dream of the 
older Geographers, of its forming a portion 
of a vast continent, which they fondly ima- 
gined stretched far into the — re- 
gions towards the South Pole 
As he now urged his voyage ger ar 
along the western coast of the larger island, 
he barely looked at an apparently well- 
sheltered harbour at its South-western ex- 
treme; which, by reason of the seemingly 
perpetual mist that hung over its shores, 
he named Dusky Bay. The examination 
of its shores, as well as its vegetation so 
rich and diversified as has been since 
shown us by our very excellent and vene- 
rable friend, Mr. Menzies, was, however, 
reserved for another voyage, and for other 
Botanists. 
After running up that line of coast, to 
the North, and reaching the Strait already 
navigated, Captain Cook, before he took 
his final leave of those islands, anchored 
in Admiralty Bay to fill his water- 
casks, and thus the Naturalists had one 
other opportunity given them to step on 
shore and observe, as their Commander 
has it, “ if any gleanings of natural know- 
ledge yet remained." Here terminated, 
for that voyage, the exploration of those 
highly interesting islands by our able Cir- 
cumnavigator, in the prosecution of which 
he had consumed upwards of twenty-six 
weeks ; and during that period had afforded 
such facilities to the illustrious men, whom 
the pure love of Natural Science had in- 
duced to accompany him to land and pur- 
sue their researches, that it may be truly 
said, by far the greater number of the 
phenogamous plants of those islands at 
present known, were discovered and col- 
lected in that memorable voyage ! 
On Saturday, the 31st of March, 1770, 
Cook and his companions bade adieu to 
the shores of New Zealand, and takin 
their departure from Cape Farewell, they 
stood to sea at West, other and greater 
discoveries awaiting to immortalize them, 
SPECIMEN OF THE BOTANY OF NEW ZEALAND. 
and among these that of the entire coast of — 
New South Wales, a line of shore lying | 
in the direction of the meridian, nearly — : 
two thousand miles in extent, and bee: a 
unseen by previous Navigators. ee 
But we must hasten on to take a more — 
cursory notice of the subsequent visits! to 
those islands. : 
As an evidence of the interest that had 7 
been already excited by the accounts of ; 
Cook and De Surville of New Zealand, — 
before the return of the former to those — 
islands, whilst prosecuting his second voy- b. 
age round the globe, they were visited by — 
another French Navigator, named M. Ma- — 
rion du Fresne, who had sailed from the — 
Mauritius in the Ship Mascarin, accompa- 
nied by another vessel, on an explorative E 
voyage to the eastward in the Pacific Ocean, : 
“in quest of its hidden islands and conti- 
pula He made the West coast, nearly — 
Cape Egmont (of Cook) on the 24th of 5 
March, 1772, and. eventually directed w p 
course northerly round to the Bay of ls- — 
lands, where he had communication with j 
the natives, who, on being shown iron tools, i 
such as axes, hatchets, and scissors, evinced : 
the strongest anxiety to get possession of : 
them, and instantly handled each of them — 
in such a way as to convince their French — 
! In noticing these visits dd it is dc = 
hip was 1 
per here to remark, that Cook's s E 
European vessel which the year 1769 aa tae : 
ork, pe 
lished by the Abbé | 
the 12th of December of that year, whilst our great a 
— was ply eg: to the Nen of Do 
} thern island, — 
(in la 
a ums ced the St. Jean Baptiste, under eunt 
ed in 
trepid and plodding mume he su = fe de 
ing an entrance into an inlet to which he ir 
ed Doubtful Bay. 
After a short stay at ees 
hos "nid received by th 
A wards the Island of Jua 
in n which period b 
himself in the Zoology or Botany © i 
which he ime daily during the fortnight | 
ed in the 
