Lately published, in 2 vols. 8vo. cloth, with 8 Maps and Charts, 

 and 57 Illustrations. 



BY COMMAND OF THE LORDS COMMISSIONERS OF THE ADMIRALTY. 



DISCOVERIES IN AUSTRALIA; 



OF THE 



VICTORIA, ADELAIDE, ALBERT, AND FITZROY RIVERS 



AND EXPEDITIONS INTO THE INTERIOR ; 



WITH AN ACCOUNT OF THE 



HITHERTO UNKNOWN COASTS 



SURVEYED DURING THE 



VOYAGE OF H.M. S. BEAGLE, 



BETWEEN THE YEARS 1837 AND* - 1843 : ALSO, 



A NARRATIVE OF THE VISITS OF H.M.S. BRITOMART, 

 COMMANDER OWEN STANLEY, R.N., F.R.S. 



TO THE ISLANDS IN THE ARAFURA SEA. 



BY J, LORT STOKES, 



COMMANDER, R.N. 



The Beagle sailed from England early in the year 1837, and returned 

 towards the close of 1843. During that period, besides the ordinary 

 incidents of naval adventure, many circumstances of interest marked 

 the progress of her voyage. Unknown shores and untraversed plains 

 upon the north and north-west coasts of Australia have been added to 

 our geographical knowledge. An inroad into the interior, reaching 

 within 500 miles of the very centre of the great Australian Continent, 

 has been accomplished. The rivers Victoria, Adelaide, Albert, and 

 Fitzroy, have been discovered. Great additions have been made to 

 the several departments of Natural History, of which the various 

 specimens will be classified and described by eminent Naturalists. The 

 north-west coast of Australia has been carefully surveyed ; and Bass 

 Strait, heretofore so justly dreaded by the Masters of ships, may now 

 be navigated with that safety which ought to distinguish the high road 

 between England and Sydney. The charts of the passage through 

 Torres Strait, by the inner route, have been improved, and a safe 

 channel discovered through Endeavour Strait: while anchorages — 

 especially at Western and Southern Australia — now correctly laid 

 down, and doubtful positions finally assigned, prove that in the 

 unpretending though important duties of surveying, the officers of the 

 Expedition failed not to do justice to the cause wherein they were 



Notices of Tenerife, San Salvador, the Brazils, the Cape of Good 

 Hope, the Mauritius, its Hurricanes, and the numerous Islands, Waters, 

 and Lands of Australia, now first discovered and described, will be found 

 in the earlier portions of the work, and an account of the interesting 

 visits of H.M.S. Britomart, to the islands in the Arafura Sea, prepared 

 by Captain Owen Stanley, in the latter part. 



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