Geology.] 
NATURAL HISTORY. 
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the sketches taken by Captain King and his officers. This 
is conspicuous in the neighbourhood of Cape Croker ; — at 
Darch Island and Palm Bay; at Point Annesley and Point 
Coombe in Mountnorris Bay; — in the land about Cape Van 
Diemen, and on the north-west of Bathurst Island. The 
cliffs on Roe’s River (Prince Frederic’s Harbour), as might 
have been expected from the specimens, are described as 
of a reddish colour ; Cape L^veque is of the same hue ; and 
the northern limit of Shark’s Bay, Cape Cuvier of the French, 
lat. 24° 13', which is like an enormous bastion, may be dis- 
tinguished at a considerable distance by its full red colour 
It is on the bank of the channel which separates Bathurst 
and Melville Islands, near the north-eastern extremity of 
New Holland, that a new colony has recently been esta- 
blished : (see Captain King’s Narrative, vol. ii., p. 233.) A 
permanent station under the superintendence of a British 
officer, in a country so very little known, and in a situation 
so remote from any other English settlement, affords an op- 
portunity of collecting objects of natural history, and of illus- 
trating various points of great interestTo physical geography 
and meteorology, which it is to be hoped will not be ne- 
glected. And as a very instructive collection, for the ge- 
neral purposes of geology, can readily be obtained in such 
situations, by attending to a few precautions, I have thought 
that some brief directions on this subject would not be out of 
place in the present publication ; and have subjoined them 
to the list of specimens at the close of this paper t. 
In the vicinity of Cambridge Gulf, Captain King states, 
the character of the country is entirely changed; — and irre- 
* Freycinet, p. 195. 
t See hereafter, page 62S. 
