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name of a continent, is by far the large# ifland in the 
world. 
The land is, for the mo# part, of a good height, diverfified 
with hills and valleys, and every where of a greenifh hue. 
It is well wooded; and, if one may judge from appearances, 
and from what we met with in Adventure Bay, is not ill 
fupplied with water. We found plenty of it in three or 
four places in this bay. The belt, or what is moft conve¬ 
nient for Ihips that touch here, is a rivulet, which is one of 
feveral that fall into a pond, that lies behind the beach at 
the head of the bay. It there mixes with the fea-water; fo 
that it muft be taken up above this pond, which may be 
done without any great trouble. Fire-wood is to be got, 
with great eafe, in feveral places. 
The only wind to which this bay is expofed, is the North 
Eaft. But as this wind blows from Maria’s Illands, it can 
bring no very great fea along with it; and therefore, upon 
the whole, this may be accounted a very fafe road. The 
bottom is clean, good holding ground; and the depth of 
water from twelve, to five and four fathoms. But the 
annexed Chart will convey a better idea of every thing 
neceffary to he known about Adventure Bay, than any de¬ 
fer ipt ion. 
Captain Furneaux’s fketch of Van Diemen’s Land, pub- 
lifhed with the Narrative of my laft Voyage*, appears to me 
to be without any material error, except with regard to Ma¬ 
ria’s Iflands, which have a different fituation from what is 
there reprefented. What my idea of them is, will be feen 
in the fketch of that coall: here inferted; and I infert it, not 
as the refult of a more faithful, but inerely of a fecond 
* Vol. i. p. 115. 
examination. 
