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 2 SURVE OP TI INTETROPICAL sl9. following remark, under date of 21st and 29.d zuly o. June, 1770. "Employed getting our coals on shore." This is also confirmed in the account of the voyage*; and, when it is taken into consi. deration that we found it on no other part than the very spot that Captain Cook's coals must, from our local knowledge of the place, have been landed, the difficulty ceases; and there remains no doubt but that it is a relic of that navigator's voyage, which must have been lying undisturbed for nearly haft a century. Among the varieties of seeds which were col- lected at this river were the following :--growillaz gibbosa; a species of leea; a cassia; a species of &lea, remarkable for its simple foliage; two species. of melaleuea, one bearing a white, the other a crimson flower; an acac; two species of the nat. ord. �onvolvolaceat viz., sponuea and iponum grad//; and a species of the nat. ord. leguminoste allied to gallga ; er#thrina indica or the coral.tree; several species of eucalyptus; a xanthorhoea; and a great number of other cu- rious plants, which will appear whenever the ca- talogue of Mr. Cunnigham's extensive botanical collection is p, ublished. n. On the 1 lth at day.break, it was intended that we should leave the river, but the weather being
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