NEW SOUTH WALES. iSj 
CHAP, 
XVIIL 
CHAPTER XVIIL 
Concife account of hieutenant Shortland—His variotis fer'^ces'-' Ap- 
pointed agent to the tranfports fent to New South Wales — Ordered 
by Governor Phillip to England, by Batavia — 'Journal of his 
voyage — New difccvcries. 
"WJ E have been induced to fubjoin in this place a; 
concife account of Lieutenant Shortland, as well 
becaufe his experience as an officer has been great, as 
from the confideration that his journal has been deemed, 
by thofe who beft know its value, of very ferious im- 
' portance. 
Lieutenant John Shortland very early in life 
had a ftrong prediledion for the Navy, and in 1755,, 
at the age of Hxteen, he entered into his Majefty's 
fervice, on board the Anfon, a fixty gun fliip, which, 
went out in the fleet under the command of Admiral 
Bofcawen. On the Banks of Nev/foundland this fleet 
fell in With, and took the Alcide and Ly's, tv,^o French 
fliipsj. 
