Coasts examined.'] 
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Bowen, Strong-tide Passage, Shoal-water Bay, and Broad Sound, the survey 
of which was completed ; we lauded also on two of the Northumberland and 
on one of the Cumberland Isles. 
On the North Coast we landed on Good’s Island, one of the Prince 
of Wales’ Isles of captain Cook ; fora few hours at Coen River on the 
east side of the Culph of Capentaria ; and in more favourable circum- 
stances on many of the islands and some points of the mainland on the 
west side of this Gulph Several of the group called the Company’s Islands 
in the chart, the shores of Melville Bay, of Caledon Bay, and a small part 
of Arnhem Bay were also examined. 
We then left the coast, owing to the decayed state of the ship, which, 
on our return to Port Jackson, was surveyed and pronounced unfit for the 
prosecution of the voyage. 
Captain Flinders having, in consequence of this, determined to re- 
pair immediately to England, for the purpose of obtaining another vessel 
to complete the objects of the expedition ; Mr. Bauer and myself agreed to 
remain in the colony of New South Wales, until his return, or, if that should 
not take place, for a period not exceeding eighteen months. During this 
time we added very considerably to our collections of plants, within the 
limits of the Colony of Port Jackson and its dependent settlements ; the 
banks of the principal rivers and some part of the mountains bounding the 
colony were examined ; I visited also the north and south extremities of 
Van Diemen’s Land, remaining several months in the vicinity of the river 
Derwent ; and repeatedly landed on Kent’s Islands, in Bass’ Strait, on the 
shores of which the prihcipal part of the Submarine Algae contained in 
our collections were found. 
The reader of captain Flinders’s narrative is already acquainted with 
the unfortunate circumstances that prevented his revisiting Port Jackson 
within the expected period, soon after the expiration of which we embraced 
an opportunity of returning to England, where we arrived in October 1805, 
with the greater part of our collections, and without having absolutely lost 
any one species ; though many of our best specimens of the South Coast, 
and all the living plants collected in the voyage perished in the wreck of 
the Porpoise. 
The collection of Australian plants thus formed amounts to nearly 
3900 species. But before embarking in the voyage of captain Flinders, I 
