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APPENDIX. [. Botany of Terra Australis. 
under which our collections were formed, both in the Investigator's vbyage, 
and subsequently, during a stay of eighteen months, in New South Wales 
and Van Diemen’s Island; as also to state other sources from which addi- 
tional materials have been obtained. By this means the reader will be 
better enabled to judge how far I am entitled to make thdse observations 
of a more general nature which he will find in the following pages. 
The first part of New Holland examined in captain Flinders’s voyage 
was the South Coast, on various and distant points of w hich, and on 
several of its adjacent islands we landed, in circumstances more or less 
favourable for our researches. The survey of this coast took place from 
West to East, and our first anchorage was in King George Third’s Sound, 
in 35 c S. lat. and 118° E. Ion. In this port we remained for three weeks, in 
the most favourable season for our pursuits ; and our collections of plants 
made chiefly on its shores and a few miles into the interior oi the country, 
amount to nearly 500 species, exclusive of those belonging to the class 
Cryptogamia, which, though certainly bearing a small proportion to phae- 
nogamous plants, were not, it must be admitted, equally attended to. At 
our second anchorage, Lucky Bay of captain Hinders s chart, in 34 S. lat. 
and about 4° to the eastward of King George’s Sound ; we remained only 
three days, but even in that short time added upwards ol 100 species to 
our former collection. 
Goose- Island Bay, in the same latitude and hardly one degree to the 
eastward of the second anchorage, where our stay was also very short, af- 
forded us but few new plants ; and the remaining parts of the South Coast, 
on five distant points of which we landed, as well as on seven of its adjacent 
Islands, were still more barren, altogether producing only 200 additional 
species The smallness of this number is to be accounted for, partly, no 
doubt, from the less favourable season in which this part of the coast was 
examined ; but it appeared to depend also in a considerable degree on its 
greater sterility, and especially that of its islands. 
Of New South Wales, or the East Coast of New Holland, scarcely 
any part beyond the tropic was examined in the voyage ; our first landing 
after leaving Port Jackson being at Sandy Cape, in nearly 25 S. lat. Be- 
tween this and 21° S. lat, we had many, and upon the whole, favourable 
opportunities for observation, especially at Port Curtis, Keppel Bay, Port 
