NEW SOUTH WALES, 
man, as we are for the beautiful delineation of the whole 
coaft, to the care and ingenuity of his fon, Mr, John 
George Shortland. The only places in which Lieute- 
nant Shortland fufpedted there might poffibly be a 
paffage which had efcaped his obfervation, v/as between 
Cape Phillip and Cape Flenflow, and again between the 
capes Mardi and Pitt. The afcertaining of thefe mat- 
ters he leaves to other navigators, at the fame time re- 
commending the route he took' as the fafeft and mod 
expeditious palTage within his knowledge from Port 
Jackfon to China ; Middleton Shoal, on the coaft of 
New South Wales, being the only place of danger he had 
hitherto difcovered. Should any obje6tion be made to 
paffing through a flrait, where a more open fea can be 
obtained, he would recommend the much wider chan- 
nel between Egmont Ifland and Simboo, and not by any 
means the whole circuit to the eafl of the New He- 
brides. To the whole of this land, conlifling of the 
two principal illands on each fide of the ftraits, and the 
Treafury Ifles between them, Lieutenant Shortland gave 
the name of New Georgia. There is, indeed, an iiland of 
Georgia, to the eaft of Staten Land, fo named by Captain 
Cook in 1775 : but between thefe, it feems to be a 
fufficient diftin6lion to call the one the Ille of Georgia, 
and the other New Georgia. The land on the v/ellern 
lide of Shortland's Straits, continued to be very high, 
and extended as far as the eye could reach ; from thefe 
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