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( 193 ) While the Calcutta remained at Port Philip, besides the necessary duties of the ship, the crew were actively employed in collecting such specimens of ship-timber as the place afforded; and, about one hundred and fifty pieces of compass-timber, chiefly honeysuckle, were procured.

During the period of uncertainty, between the sailing of the boat, and the return of advices from Port Jackson, the First Lieutenant of the Calcutta, with several other officers, and a party of convicts to carry provisonsprovisions [sic], proceeded by land to examine Western Port, and ascertain the correctness of the description given of it by