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 succeeded by a short gae .from the westvard. lsla On the 0th, at laylight, we were close to Bald Island, and in the afternoon took up an anchorage in King George the Third's Sound, between Se Island and the first sandy beach, at the dis- ance of half-a-mile to the eastward of a flat rock in seven fathoms, sand and weeds. In the evening we landed on Seal Island, which we had much difcty in effectlng on ac- count of the surf. Several seals were upon it, one of which we killed; and some penguins were also taken. On the summit of the island or rock, for it scarcely deserves the former appella- tion, the-skeleton of a goat's head was found, and near it were the remains of a glass case bottle; both of which, we airwards learnt, were let on the island by Lieutenant Forster, R.N., who put into this harbour in 1815, on his passage from Port Jackson to Europe, in the Emu, hired transport. We searched in vain for the bottle which Captain Flinders left .there containing an account of the Investigator's visit  my intention, in looking for this document, was not of course to remove it, but to ascertain its existence, and to add a few lines to the me- morandum it contained. Iguanas, geese, penguins, gulls, and seals of the hary species, were the sole inhabitants ef this Dioitize;ty GOOc[C

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