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flock of teal presented themselves, and four were shot. There were 1802 - 
l-ii inr*i • 1 February. 
also pied snags, and gulls of three species ; and in the island were Sunday7. 
seen many crows, a green paroquet, and two smaller birds. A black 
snake, of the common size, was killed, but its form did not bespeak 
it to be venemous. After observing the sun's altitude at noon, I re- 
turned on board with the intention of getting the ship under way, to 
examine more closely a bight in the coast near Point Bell ; and then 
of returning to Petrel Bay in the Isle St. Francis, in order to 
obtain better observations for a base to my chart of this archipelago. 
At two o'clock, Mr. Brown and his party returned from the eastern 
island, bringing four kangaroos, of a different species to any be_ 
fore seen. Their size was not superior to that of a hare, and they 
Were miserably thin, and infested with insects. No other than cal- 
careous rock was seen upon the eastern island. It seemed to afford 
neither wood nor water, nor were there any marks of its having 
been visited bv the natives of the continent ; in which respects it re- 
sembled the western island, as it also did in its vegetation, and in 
being frequented by the sooty petrel. Mr. Brown's pocket thermo- 
meter stood at 125 0 when placed on the sand, and gS in the shade ; 
whilst on board the ship the height was only 83 0 . 
The sun was too high at noon for its altitude to be taken from 
an artificial horizon, with a sextant ; but by lying down upon the 
beach, I obtained it from the sea horizon, tolerably free from the 
refractive errors caused by the haze. The latitude of the north side of 
the western Isle of St. Peter, thus observed, was 32 0 2 1 south, and 
the longitude by timekeepers, corrected as usual, 133 0 29' east. There 
was no set of tide past the ship ; but from eight o'clock to noon, 
the water had risen about a foot by the shore. 
The anchor was weighed on the return of the botanists, and 
we steered westward past the small island named hound's, and as 
far as Purdie's Isles ; when, having seen the whole line of the 
coast behind them, we hauled to the southward at six o'clock, for 
Petrel Bay ; and atone in the morning came to, in 13 fathoms, near Mondays, 
our former anchorage. 
