NEW SOUTH WALES. 
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feen by Captain Carteret : but as neither the number chap, 
^ ^ XVIIL 
nor the longitude was found to correfpond, Lieutenant 
Shortland afterwards conduded they were not the fame ; 
and determined, as the weather appeared fqually and 
imfettled, not to attempt purfuing the tra6l of that officer 
through St. George's Channel, but to go round New 
Ireland. 
C H A P 
