*793-] OF NEW SOUTH WALES. 2o; 



been furnimed from a plentiful market*. The healths of their re- 

 fped:ive fovereigns, being united in one wifh, were drank with every 

 token of approbation, under a difcharge of cannon ; and " Pro- 

 fperky to the Britifh Colonies in* New South Wales,'* concluded the 

 ceremonials of each day. 



The Commodore prefented the Lieutenant-Governor with two 

 drawings of Sydney and Parramatta, done in Indian ink, by F. Bram- 

 bila ; together with a copy of the aftronomical obfervations which had 

 been made at the obfervatory, and at Parramatta. From thefe it ap- 

 peared, that the longitude of the obfervatory which they had erected 

 at the Point, deduced from forty- two fets of diftanees of the fun 

 and moon, taken on the morning of the 2d of April, was 15 1° 18' 8" 

 E. from Greenwich, and the latitude 33° 51' 28" S* The latitude of 

 the Governor's houfe from Parramatta was 33 0 48' S. 1 and the 

 diftance Weft from the obfervatory about nineteen miles. 



The Commodore left a packet with difpatches for the Spanim am- 

 bafiador at the court of London, to be forwarded by the firft fhip 

 which mould fail for England; and on the 12th both mips failed. 

 Their future route was never exa&ly fpoken of by them ; but from 

 what the officers occafionally threw out, it appeared that they ex- 

 pected to be in Europe in about fourteen months from their depar- 

 ture. They fpoke of vifiting the Society and Friendly Iilands, and of 

 proceeding again to the coaft of South America. 



As it had been the general wifh of the gentlemen of the fettlement 

 to render the refidence of the ftrangers, while among them, as plea- 

 fant as their fituation would allow, they received with great fads- 

 faction the expreffions of regret which they teftified at their depar- 

 ture ; a regret that was at lean: equal on the part of thofe to whom ft 

 was profeffed. Their fociety was very fmall ; they could not there- 

 fore but fenfibly feel the lofs of thefe gentlemen, who united to fo 

 much fcientific knowledge thofe qualities of the heart which render 



* A fmall cow from Monterry was facrifked on the occafion* 



men 



