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1 have been rather particular in describing the 

 little bay east of Mount Bremer, because it seems 

 to me very well adapted for the station of a small 

 post which, ere long, must, I think, be established 

 in this neighbourhood. To the advantages of 

 abundant wood and water, safe anchorage, an 

 agreeably undulated and sufficiently elevated surface, 

 whether for healthy residence, or the establishment 

 of signal posts and look-out stations, it adds that of 

 having a strip of very fertile soil immediately behind 

 the beach, now occupied by a jungle, but well 

 adapted for a garden, and two or three grassy plains 

 on one side of it, surrounded by steep little rocky 

 hills, and admirably adapted for horse and cattle 

 paddocks. To the west of Mount Bremer, between 

 it and Endeavour Strait, there are also some small 

 plains between the hills and the sea. These lie 

 between Mount Bremer and Peaked Hill, which is 

 540 feet high, and are five or six miles long, by one 

 or two in breadth. Tall green grass covered these 

 plains in the month of June, the driest season of 

 the year, and water was to be had in the gullies. 

 There is, therefore, abundant means for the support 

 of a small party, similar to that which has been for 

 some years posted at Port Essington. 1 shall, 

 however, return to this subject, and therefore dismiss 

 it for the present. 



The Possession Islands, in the mouth of Endeavour 

 Strait, and the larger islands to the northward, are 

 all rocky and barren, with here and there small 



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