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234 was discovered during the early part of the said voyage.

The Tamar arrived at Port Jackson on the 28th of July, 1824; when every facility was rendered by the colonial government, to further the object in view. The expedition sailed thence in less than a month, with a detachment of the 3d regiment, and forty-five convicts, in addition to the party of Royal Marines that had been embarked before the Tamar left England. The establishment was placed under the command of Captain Barlow, of the 3d regiment. A merchant ship, the Countess of Harcourt, was taken up to convey the stores and provisions, and the Lady Nelson, colonial brig, was also placed at the disposal of the commandant.

Lieutenant Roe, in describing this voyage to me, writes:—"We had a very favourable passage to the northward, and in less than three weeks cleared Torres' Strait by the route you recommended to Captain Bremer, without encountering any accident. We nevertheless saw several shoals that, in our former voyages in the Mermaid and Bathurst, were not noticed; by reason of the greater altitude of the Tamar's mast-head affording a much more extensive view