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PREFACE. 
The descriptive notices have been chiefly extracted from his Diary, which was in part pubUshed in the " United Service 
Journal," between the months of July 1839 and May 1840. ■ .. 
The sketches were made on the spot during Lander's expedition, which he accompanied, by order of the Admiralty, for 
the purpose of making a survey of the river ; and while he would claim some indulgence for them, on the plea of their 
having been taken when he was suffering severely from the effect of the climate, he takes confidence from the goodness of 
the cause, and from the high auspices under which he appears before the Pubhc 
