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Nor heed rewardful toil, nor feeken 
praife ; 
Thither thou didft repair in lucklefs hour, 
And, lulled by thine own enchanting 
lays, 
Didft lie adown, entranced in the bow’r, 
The which thyfelf didft make, the gath’ring 
of thy pow’r. 
But Venus, fuff’ring not her fav’rite 
worm, 
For aye to fleepen in his filky tomb ; 
Infpires him to throw off his priftine form, 
And the gay features ofa fly affume. 
When lo! eftfoons from the furround- 
ing gloom 
He vigorous breaks forth iffuing from the 
wound 
His horny beak had made, and finding 
roomy 
On new plum’d wings he flutters all around, 
And buzzing {peaks his joy in moft expreffive 
found, 
So may the God of Science and of Wit, 
With pitying eye ken thee, his darling 
fon, 
Shake from thy fatty fides the flumb’rous 
fit, 
(in which alas! thou art fo woe-begone) 
And with his pointed arrow goad thee 
on, 
Till thou refeeleft life in all thy veins ; 
And on the wings of Re/folution, 
Like thine own hero™ dight, flieft o’er the 
: plains, 
Chaunting his peerlefs praife in never-dying 
ftrains. 
Pe 
For the Monthly Magazine. 
LETTER from CAPTAIN BAUDIN, 70 
CITIZEN JUS*IEU, dated NEW HOL- 
LAND, PORT JACKSON, the 20th BRU- 
MAIRE, YEAR XI. 
HE return of the thip Naturaliffe to 
France, under the command of Cap- 
tain Hamelin, willenable youtojudge how 
far we have employed our time well inthe 
department relating to natural hiltory. 
To him I have affigned the care of remit- 
ting to their deftination all the objects that 
we have collected to this moment, as be- 
ing perfuaded that he will acquit himfelf 
of it with al] the zeal and vigilance which 
he has fo often given proofs of—on this 
confideration I recommend him to your 
notice. 
By my letter to the Minifter of the Ma- 
rine, which contains feveral extraéts of my 
* The knight of Induftry, the hero of 
the poem. 
MonTHLy Mac. No.121> 
Letter from Captain Baudin to Citizen Fuffieu. 
309 
journal, you will perceive that, during the 
laftitwo years, I have performed all that 
depended upon myfelf with refpect to the 
augmenting of our colleétions, in all kinds. 
The premature death of Citizens Riedlé 
and Maugé, which I cannot fufficiently 
regret, has laid me under the neceffity of 
occupying by myfelf the department of 
which they both acquutted themfelves with 
a zeal which I cannot flatter myfelf with 
the hopes of attaining. 
I thall not take up your time with a de- 
tail of all that has taken place fince our de- 
parture. Let me inform you, in brief, 
that I have never made fo fatiguing a voy 
age: more than once my health has been 
impaired by it; but if at length I fhall 
be enabled to terminate my marine tour 
conformably to the intentions of govern= 
ment, and to the expectations of the 
French nation, I fhall have little elfe to 
with for, and my labours will be foon for- 
gotten. I am the more encouraged to 
hope for fuccefs, as the Land of Leuwin, 
thofe of Concord and de Witt, the chane« 
nel of Entrecafteaux, the Ifle of Maria, 
and its environs, the eaftern coaft of the 
large Ifle of Diemen, the ftreights of EafS 
and of Banks, and all the fouth-weft coaft 
of New Holland, from the promontory of 
Wilfon, to the Ifles of St Peter and Sta 
Francis, have been reconnoitred fufficiently 
to infure the fafety of navigation. Nevers 
thelefs, there yet remains much to be done 
for the topography of the country, which, 
doubtlefs, will remain long unknown, in 
confequence of the natural difficulties op- 
pofed by the extent of coafts that we have 
explored. 
When I parted with the Naturalife, I 
refolved to make the purchafe of a {mall 
veflel, of about 30 tons burden, which I 
have named The Cafuarind, becaufe it 
is, in a great meafure, conftructed of the 
wood that bearsthat name. This veffel is 
to accompany me in future, and will be 
of no fmall advantage. Had I obtained 
it fooner, fome places where I have not 
been able to penetrate, would not have re- 
mained without inveltigation. Its little 
draught of water will enable me to land 
any where, at my option. Another con- 
fideration no lef{s important and which fix- 
ed me in my determination to fend back 
the Naturalifte, was the embarraflment 
arifing from the tranfport or carriage of our 
collections, which the accidents of the fea 
and the length of the voyage would have 
rendered unprofitable for the government 
and the fciences, had I caufed them to um 
dergo the freth hazards to which we were 
Sf going 
