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ACCOUNT OF THE ENGLISH COLONY [August, 



CHAP. XXIII. 



FURTHER PROCEEDINGS IN GLASS-HOUSE BAY.— RED CLIFF POINT. MORE- 

 TON BAY. THE SLuOP PREPARED FOR AN ATTACK ON THE NATIVES. 



THE EVENT. — ENTER PUMICE-STONE RIVER. — SEE SOME NATIVES. THE 



LEAK IN THE SLOOP STOPPED. — INTERVIEWS WITH NATIVES. MR. FLIN- 

 DERS VISITS THE GLASS HOUSE PEAKS. — -ACCOUNT OF THE COUNTRY.— 



RETURN DOWN THE RIVER. OTFIER INTERVIEWS WITH NATIVES.— 



THEIR. MANNER OF SING I NG. —D ANCING. OTHER PARTICULARS OF, AND 



SOME CONJECTURES RESPECTING THEM. QUIT PUMICE-STONE RIVER 

 AND GLASS-HOUSE BAY.-— THE NORFOLK PROCEEDS TO HERVEY's BAY.—— 

 SOME ACCOUNT OF IT. — SHE RETURNS TO PORT J AC KSON.— PUBLIC 



WORKSt THE GOVE RN OR CROSSES THE N £P£ AN. THE RELIANCE SAiLS 



FOR NORFOLK ISLAND. — THE WALKER ARRIVES FROM ENGLAND WITH 

 LIEUTENANT-COLONEL PATERSON.— DISPATCHES RECEIVED. — STORM OF 

 WIND. SETTLERS DISSATISFIED. A SPANISH PRIZE ARRIVES.— A CRI- 

 MINAL COURT HELD. GAOL BURNT AT PARRAMATTA. 



AT day-light in the morning of Wednefday the 17th, the floop 

 was got under weigh, and anchored about half paft ten o'clock, 

 a mile and a half from a point with red cliffs. A little to the 

 weftward of Red Cliff Point, Mr. Flinders found the latitude to be 

 27 0 16' 25" fouth. The rocks here were of ftone, ftrongly impreg- 

 nated with iron, having fome fmall pieces of granite and cryftal Mat- 

 tered about the fhore. 



On the following morning they paffed two iflands, and afterwards 

 two fmaller, one of which was covered with wood. Another ifland, 

 apparently larger than either of the four above mentioned, appeared at 

 the diftance of about five miles. Reckoning the northernmoft of thefe 

 four iflands to be the fir ft in number, they made their courfe good for 



the 



