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 �-COAS'r,OI AUSFRUA.. �'21 ?as ]hthurse nils Fo Eughnd**.--Remarks upou tone etTors in tim hdrof'ruphy o the soah efot of Va Diemen's land**--* King 0eoFge the Third'. Sound.---Puuffe to the Cape of Good Hope :--Cro the Atlantic, nd arrive at Plymouth Sound: --Oimrvatiom upon the voyase, ad cnclusion, Uos an examination of the brig's defects, alter leit. our arrival at Port Jackson, her stem and A' to cut-water were found so defective, as to re-9q. .quire a considerable repair; but from the diffi- * culty of procuring seasoned wood, so long a time lapsed before it was. effected, that we were not �ready for sea until the beginnin of September, -when other delays of minor importance detained us until the 25th. At Port Jackson I found orders from the Iords Commissioners of the Admiralty to re- turn to England in the Bathurst when the sur- vey should be completed; but as we were in. want of many things that the colony could not. furnish, and as we should be detained' until the. month of February before the mon- sco  allow of, our going upon the coast;

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