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schooner, called the Castlereagh, was purchased for the 

 Government, and fitted out as the Bramble's consort. 

 These arrangements detained us till December 19th, when 

 we left Sydney on our voyage home. We passed through 

 Bass's Strait, and touched in at Port Phillip on Decem- 

 ber 19th, and remained till January 11th, 1845. On 

 January 15th we anchored in Holdfast Bay, South Australia, 

 and remained till the 22nd. On February 10th, after a 

 stormy passage with strong contrary winds in rounding 

 Cape Leeuwin, we anchored in Gage's Roads, Swan River, 

 and remained a week. On February 19th we sailed, 

 having Mr. Hutt, the late Governor of Western Australia, 

 as a passenger, and arrived in Simon^s Bay, Cape of Good 

 Hope, on April 6th. On April 15th we again sailed, 

 touched at St. Helena on April 30th, and anchored at 

 Spithead on June 19th, after an absence from England of 

 four years and eleven weeks. 



The results of the voyage may be briefly stated as 

 follows : — 



The surveying and charting of the sea stretching north- 

 wards from Sandy Cape as far as lat. 21°, including the 

 Capricorn Group of islands, the widely spread mass of the 

 Swain's Reefs and the broad passage between them, and the 

 plan of Port Bowen. This is a tract 200 miles in length 

 and in some part 100 in breadth. 



The survey of the coast of the main land and the adjacent 

 sea from West Hill to the northern part of Whitsunday Pas- 

 sage. This coast line is about 110 miles long. 



The survey of Rockingham Bay. 



The survey of the outer line of the Great Barrier Reef 

 from lat. 16° 40' to its extremity in lat. 9° 20', a distance of 

 nearly 500 miles. The survey of some part of the sea 

 outside this line, and of large portions of that inside of it, 

 or between it and the main land. 



