COASTS OF AUSTRALIA. 
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our bad success may be attributed to the pre- 
sence of these fish, for on board the Dick several June ii. 
snappers were caught with the hook and line. 
In the evening the wind set in from S.b.E., 
with rain, and cloudy, thick weather : in striking 
the royal masts, a serious defect was discovered 
in our fore-top-mast ; the upper part being found 
rotten for twelve feet below the head ; and the 
top-gallant-mast was also found to be sprung in 
the wake of the cap ; so that we were compelled 
to remain all the next day at the anchorage to 
shift them. This detention was very vexatious, 
for we were not only losing a fair wind, but lying 
in a very exposed situation. 
During the preceding night a brig anchored 
half a mile to the southward of us : she proved 
to be the San Antonio ; she left Port Jackson 
four days after us, and was bound on a trading 
speculation to the Moluccas and Sincapore. In 
the forenoon I visited the master, Mr. Hemmans, 
and offered him my guidance up the coast, if he 
would wait until we had shifted our defective 
to that harbour ; it is so called in the charts of the Endeavour’s 
voyage, in the Hydrographical Office at the Admiralty, as well as 
in Sir Joseph Banks’s copy of the Endeavour’s journal, and in 
Dr. Solander’s MS. journal, both of which are in the possession of 
my friend Robert Brown, Esq. The name by which it is now 
known appears to have been given subsequently, on account of the 
variety and beauty of its botanical productions. 
