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1820. ascent, was no easy task. A view, however, 
Sept .8. from this elevated station, and an amplitude of the 
setting sun, repaid me for my trouble ; and Mr. 
Cunningham increased his collection by the ad- 
dition of some interesting plants and a few papers 
of seeds. 
The distance that the French expedition kept 
from this part of the coast, of which M. De Frey- 
cinet so often and so justly complains, prevented 
it from ascertaining the detail of its shores: 
in fact, very few parts of it were seen at all. 
Commodore Baudin’s Cape Chateaurenaud must 
be some low island which we did not see, unless 
it was the outermost of our Prudhoe Islands. 
Montagu Sound is bounded on the west by 
an island of considerable size, which was named 
in compliment to John Thomas Bigge, Esq., his 
Majesty’s late Commissioner of Inquiry into the 
state of the colony of New South Wales. Bigge 
Island is separated from the main by a strait 
named after the Reverend Thomas Hobbes Scott, 
now Archdeacon of New South Wales, formerly 
Secretary to the above commission. 
9 . The next morning we steered through Scott’s 
Strait, but not without running much risk on ac- 
count of the muddy state of the water, and from 
the rocky nature of its channel. It was, how- 
ever, passed without accident; but, as the tide 
