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SURVEY OP THE INTERTROPICAL 
1819 . following remark, under date of 21st and 22d 
JuiT 0. June, 1770. “ Employed getting our coals on 
shore.” This is also confirmed in the account of 
the voyage* ; and, when it is taken into consi- 
deration that we found it on no other part than 
the very spot that Captain Cook s coals must, 
from our local knowledge of the place, have been 
landed, the difficulty ceases ; and there remains 
no doubt but that it is a relic of that navigator’s 
voyage, which must have been lying undisturbed 
for nearly half a century . 
Among the varieties of seeds which were col- 
lected at this river were the following : grevillea 
gibbosa ; a species of leea ; a cassia; a species of 
dalea, remarkable for its simple foliage; two 
species of melaleuca, one bearing a white, the 
other a crimson flower ; an acacia ; two species 
of the nat. ord. convolvolacem , viz., spomwa and 
ipomoea gracilis; and a species ol the nat. old. 
leguminosce allied to gallega ; erythrina Mica or 
the coral-tree; several species of eucalyptus; a 
xanthorhcea; and a great number of other cu 
rious plants, which will appear whenever the ca- 
talogue of Mr. Cunnigham’s extensive botanical 
collection is published. 
n. On the 11th at day-break, it was intended that 
we should leave the river, but the weather being 
* Hawkbswouth, vol. iii. p. 155. 
