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work, for some spike nails were found about their isi9. 
fire-places ; these traces, however, were not very July 14. 
recent, nor was it probable that any natives were 
upon the island at the time of our visit. 
The hills about Cape Flinders, and the low 
shores of the bay in which we found the wreck, 
furnished Mr. Cunningham with a large collection 
of plants and seeds, and among them was a spe- 
cies of melaleuca , not hitherto known, and which 
Mr. Cunningham has described under the name 
of m.foliosa ; he also found a mimusops , and a gre- 
villea(g. gibbosa,) remarkable for its ligneous sphe- 
rical capsules: and on the sandy shore at the south 
end of the bay we found and procured a large quan- 
tity of the bulbous roots of a crinum ( angustifolium ?) 
In a bay to the southward of the cutter’s anchorage 15. 
some mud oysters were found, which were not ill 
flavoured. Shell fish was abundant on the flats 
in Wreck Bay, but we were unsuccessful with the 
hook and line, although surrounded by fish of va- 
rious descriptions. 
On the 16th, as soon as day dawned, we left is. 
this anchorage. At sunset we anchored at the 
! bottom of Princess Charlotte’s Bay, in three 
I fathoms, from which the low shore was visible as 
i far as west ; an opening among the back hills in 
the S.E. probably affords a fresh stream, but as 
no break was observed on the beach we did not 
