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A VOYAGE TO 
[North Coast, 
isos, the water being shallow towards the head, anchored in 3 fathoms, 
Thursday 27. m uddy ground, with the extremity of the point bearing S. 41 0 E. 
two and a half miles. 
An officer was sent on shore to search for fresh water and ex- 
amine the beacji with a view to hauling the seine, but had no suc- 
cess ; the naturalist accompanied him, to botanise, and not coming 
down to the boat at dusk, the officer left a man with a fire on the 
beach, to wait his arrival. At ten o'clock a gun was fired, and the 
boat sent back ; but nothing had been heard of the naturalist, or the 
seaman who carried his specimen boxes, and some apprehensions 
Friday 28. began to be entertained. Soon after daylight we had the satisfac- 
tion to see Mr. Brown on the shore. It appeared that from one of 
those mistakes which so frequently occur in thick woods and dull 
weather, when without a compass, the east had been mistaken for 
west ; and Mr. Brown reached the water side at dusk, but on the 
wrong side of the point. He thought it more prudent to remain 
there all night, than to re-enter the wood in the dark ; and the 
report of the gun having given him the true direction, he had no 
difficulty in the morning. No natives were seen but the howling 
of dogs was heard not far off. 
Whilst the botanists continued to follow their pursuits upon 
Point Blane, I went over in the whale-boat to Mount Grindall, with 
the landscape painter ; from whence, after cutting down some small 
trees at the top, my view extended over all the neighbouring islands, 
points, and bays. Blue-mud Bay was seen to reach further north 
than Mount. Grindall, making it to be upon a long point, which I also 
named Point Grindall , from respect to the present vice-admiral of that 
name ; further west, in the bay, was a stream running five or six 
miles into the land, terminating in a swamp, and with shoal banks 
and a low island at the entrance ; all the northern part of the bay, 
indeed, seemed to be shallow, and to have no ship passage into it 
on the north side of Isle Woodall. The large bight between Point* 
Grindall and Blane extended two leagues above the ship, but it did 
