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NATURAL HISTORY. 
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A FEAV GENERAL REMARKS ON THE VEGETATION OF 
CERTAIN COASTS OF TERRA AUSTRALIS, 
AND MORE ESPECIALLY OF ITS 
NORTH-WESTERN SHORES. 
By Mr. ALLAN CUNNINGHAM, 
Collector to the 
It having been resolved by the British Government to em- 
ploy a colonial vessel from the settlement of Port Jackson 
in New South Wales, for the purpose of exploring the whole 
of the North-western Coasts of New Holland, and that por- 
tion of the North Coast, not seen by that able navigator, the 
late Captain Flinders ; a most favourable opportunity was 
thereby afforded for a partial examination of the plants of 
those unknown shores, with a view of adding to our pro- 
gressively augmenting knowledge of the very interesting ' 
Flora of this southern continent. 
Having materially profited by a twelvemonth’s previous 
residence in New South Wales, acquainting myself with the 
characters (and principal peculiarities of structure) of many 
genera of plants absolutely proper to Terra Australis ; and 
particularly in that period, throughout the progress of a long 
and very interesting journey in the interior, to the westward 
of Port Jackson, I was most happy and desirous to obey an 
instruction I received from the Right Honourable Sir Joseph 
Banks, on behalf of the Government, directing me to place 
myself under the orders of Captain P. P. King, to whom the 
execution of this important service had been intrusted, and 
to accompany him to those particular coasts, destined for 
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