COASTS OF AUSTRALIA. 
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navigation without the reefs, which has hitherto 
been chiefly used. 
As it was not intended that I should make 
the survey of this extensive tract of coast, I did 
not feel myself authorized to examine in any very 
detailed way the bottom of every bay or opening 
that presented itself; but merely confined my- 
self to laying down the vessel’s track, and the 
positions of various reefs that were strewed on 
either side of it; and also to fixing the situations 
of the head-lands. In doing this enough has 
been effected to serve as the precursor of a more 
particular examination of the coast, the appear- 
ance of which, from its general fertile and moun- 
tainous character, made me regret the necessity 
of passing so hastily over it. 
1820. 
Jan. 12. 
