COASTS OF AUSTRALIA. 
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succeeded by a short gale from the westward. 18I8. 
On the 20th, a/t daylight, we were close to Bald Jan. 20. 
Island, and in the afternoon took up an anchorage 
in King George the Third’s Sound, between Seal 
Island and the first sandy beach, at the dis- 
ance of half-a-mile to the eastward of a flat rock 
in seven fathoms, sand and weeds. 
In the evening we landed on Seal Island, 
which we had much difficulty in effecting on ac- 
count of the surf. Several seals were upon it, 
one of which we killed ; and some penguins were 
also taken. On the summit of the island or 
rock, for it scarcely deserves the former appella- 
tion, the skeleton of a goat’s head was found, 
and near it were the remains of a glass case 
bottle; both of which, we afterwards learnt, 
were left on the island by Lieutenant Forster, 
R.N., who put into this harbour in 1815, on his 
passage from Port Jackson to Europe, in the 
Emu, hired transport. We searched in vain for 
the bottle which Captain Flinders left there, 
containing an account of the Investigator’s visit ; 
my intention, in looking for this document, was 
not of course to remove it, b ut to ascertain 
its existence, and to add a few lines to the me- 
morandum it contained. 
Iguanas, geese, penguins, gulls, and seals of 
the hairy species, were the sole inhabitants of this 
