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larity between the botanical productions of this isis. 
part and of the north coast, although there is a June 5. 
difference in latitude of ten degrees. 
After weighing, the wind, which was at S.W., 
gradually died away. During the evening we 
passed Beverly Group (the Five Island cluster 
of Captain Flinders) and, at sunset, anchored in 
sixteen fathoms fine sand and shells, near Double 
Isle. 
The whole of the next day and night was spent 6 - 
in endeavouring to approach the main, but we 
made very little progress. During the day 
natives’ fires were burning on many of the 
islands, and the coast of the main was enveloped 
in smoke. 
At daylight, on the 7th, the cutter was about 
eight miles E.b.S. from Point Slade, with a pro- 
jecting bluff cape in sight, which proved to be 
Captain Cook’s Cape Hilsborough. 
The country in the vicinity and particularly 
to the southward of the Cape is rocky and moun- 
tainous ; but the lower grounds are verdant and 
well clothed with timber ; and, judging from the 
numerous fires along the coast, it must be very 
populous ; the islands near it are rocky and very 
barren, but many of them being wooded with 
pine-tree have a picturesque appearance. 
In the evening, having passed round the Cape, 
