THE RIGHT HONOURABLE 
THE EARL BATHURST, K.G., 
HIS MAJESTY’S PRINCIPAL SECRETARY OF STATE 
FOR THE COLONIES, 
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE 
THE LORD VISCOUNT MELVILLE, K.T., 
FIRST LORD OF THE ADMIRALTY, 
THE FOLLOWING 
NARRATIVE OF THE SURVEY OF THE INTERTROPIC AL 
COASTS OF AUSTRALIA, 
PERFORMED UNDER THEIR LORDSHIPS’ JOINT DIRECTIONS AND 
FLATTERING COUNTENANCE, 
IS, BY PERMISSION, INSCRIBED 
WITH THE GREATEST RESPECT, 
BY THEIR MOST GRATEFUL SERVANT, 
PHILLIP PARKER KING. 
