a 
OF MY LITERARY LIFE: 
the ifles of “row, not very remote from the coaft of New 
Guinea. 
AFTERWARDS are mentioned Borneo, and Celebes or Macaffar ; 
and to the north of them, the Manil/a or Philippine ifles ; and to the 
eaft the rich archipelago of the fpicy ifles, comprehending the 
Banda and the Moluccas, and others which may fairly be ranged 
under that general name. New Holland, and New Guinea, with its 
appendages, New Britain and New Ireland, conclude this im- 
portant lift. New South Wales, or the weftern portion of New 
Fiolland, 1s as fully defcribed as poffible: the tranfient wonder of 
the vaft’ views of the Briti/h nation, which, annihilating time 
and fpace, has dared a plan, which would make other countries 
ftartle at the very idea. 
A Far more complete Flora of India (than any that has yet 
appeared) will follow thefe three volumes, as a feparate work, 
with {mall hiftorical notations, and references to the beft authors 
on the fubject. It certainly will prove the belt Linnean index to 
Rumphius, and others of the greater Judian botanitts. 
Tue reader may {mile at the greatnefs of the plan, and my 
boldnefs in attempting it at fo late a period of life. I am vain 
enough to think that the fuccefs is my vindication. Happy is 
the age that could thus beguile its fleeting hours, without in- 
jury to any one, and, with the addition of years, continue to rife 
in its purfuits. But more interefting, and ftill more exalted 
fubjects, muft employ my future {pan. 
APPENDIX, 
45 
Borneo. 
Tue Spicy 
IstanDs. 
New Hotuanp, 
New Guinea. 
