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us to quit the North-west Coast altogether ; the remaining 
periods of the voyage being employed in the examination of 
certain parts of the North Coast. 
We again reached the North-west Coast, in the month of 
September of the following year, resuming the survey at its 
northern extremity, under the most flattering views, and 
with a favourable season for the prosecution of that primary 
object of the voyage. Between the meridians of 125° and 
129°, on the parallel of 14°, although a large proportion 
of the vegetation was for the most part destroyed by the 
long established droughts, the number of specimens of 
plants bearing fructification, gathered at Port Keats, Van- 
sittart Bay, Port Warrender, and especially in Cambridge 
Gulf, (where we spent ten days) was nevertheless consider- 
able and highly interesting, belonging, however, almost 
wholly to established genera of which Grevillea and Acacia 
were the most striking. The breaking up of the monsoon at 
length again obliged Captain King to close his examination 
of the coast for that season, to which we, however, returned 
in September, 1820, continuing the survey westerly from 
the point at which we had left those shores the preceding 
year. I had very eligible opportunities of landing upon the 
shores of Montagu Sound, Capstan Island, Cape Pond, 
York Sound, especially at the head of Hunter’s River, at 
Brunswick Bay, and in Careening Bay, Port Nelson ; at 
which several parts the collections formed were very im- 
portant, but not extensive. 
Our encampment on the shore of the latter bay, during 
the repair of the vessel, enabled me to examine the country 
around, to the distance of four or five miles ; but it being at 
the height of the dry season, comparatively few flowering 
plants were detected, and iio herbaceous plants of impor- 
tance. Our prolonged stay there also enabled me to form 
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