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 COASTS OF AUSTRALIA. " 9 our bad success. may be attributed to the pre- 1821.- sence ofthese fish, for on board the Dick several Junell. snappew were caught with the hook and line. In the evening the wind set in from S.b.E., with rain, and cloudy, thick weather: in striking the royal masts, a serious defect was d/scovered in our fore-top-mast; the upper part being found rotten for twelve feet below the head; and the top-t-mast was also found to bo sprung in the wake of the cap; so that we were compelled lZ to remain all the next day at the anchorage to shit them. This detention was very vexatious, for we were not only losing a fair wind, but lying in a very exposed situation. During the preceding night a brig anchored half a mile to the southward of us: she proved to be the San Antonio; she le Port Jackson four days after us, and was bound on a trading speculation to the Moluccas and Sincapore. In the foronoon I visited tho master, Mr. Hemmans, and offered him my guidance up the coast, if he would wait until' we had shifted our defective to that harbour; it is so called in the charts of the Endearour's voyage, in the Hydrographlcal Of Rce at the Admiralty, as well as in Sir Joseph Banks'8 copy of the Endearour's journal, and in Dr. Solander's MS. journal, both of which are in the possession of my friend Robert Brown, Esq. The name by which it is now known appears to have been given 8ubsequentiy, on account of the variety Mid buty of h botanical productions.

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