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OF NEW SOUTH WALES, 



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well adapted both for cultivation and pafturage, and equal to any on 

 the banks of the Nile of New South Wales. The fettlers, whom he 

 had placed there, were all doing well, had not any complaints to 

 make, and had not been molefled for fome time by the natives. On 

 quitting them, he proceeded down the river to Botany Bay, and 

 thence walked over-land to Sydney ; between which places there was 

 nothing but barren and uneven ground, but every where covered with 

 the moft beautiful flowering heath. 



Shortly after his return, the Norfolk floop came in from the north- 

 ward, having been abfent about fix weeks upon a particular fervice ; 

 the following account of which is taken from the journal of 

 Lieutenant Flinders, which he delivered to the Governor after his 

 arrival. 



The Governor being very defirous of gaining fome information re- 

 fpeding the coaft to the northward of Port Jackfon, particularly of 

 two large openings marked by Captain Cook, the Norfolk floop was 

 manned with volunteers from the two King's mips ; and Lieutenant 

 Flinders was accompanied by Bong-ree, a native of the north fide of 

 Broken Bay, who had been noted for his good difpofition, and open 

 and manly conducl. On this fervice they had failed on the 8th of 

 the preceding month. 



At half paft feven in the morning of Sunday the 9th they founded ; 

 but without finding ground with fifteen fathoms of line, at the 

 diftance of half a mile from a fmall reef of black rocks, which ran off 

 from a fugar-loaf point. There were two very low, and therefore 

 dangerous rocks, lying at S. 20 0 E. three or four miles, and S. E. 

 about two miles from this point. Thefe rocks require to be parti- 

 cularly guarded againft by any veffel coming near the land. 



Sounding with ten fathoms of line at half a mile diftance from the 

 fhore of Cape Hawke, they got ground. The two hills here men- 

 tioned by Captain Cook were found to ftand upon the pitch of the 

 Cape, and were covered with bruin down to the low cliffs. The 

 ftrata. in thefe cliffs lay forty or fifty degrees from the horizontal line. 



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