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 '" Many turtles' heads were pleed cn tin shel or ni of the excavation, amply demon. attarire o� the luxurious and profuse mode otlife these outcasts of society had, at a period rathat recently, followed. The roof and sides of this snug retreat were also entirely covered with tho um:outh figures I have already described. "As this is e first specimen c Australiau taste in the fine arts that we have detected in these voyages, it became me to make a parti- o. dar observation thereon: Captain Flinders had discovered figures on Chasm Island, in the Gulf of Carpentaria, formed with a burnt stick; bt this performance, exceeding a hundred and fifty figures, which must have occupied much time, appears at least to be one step nearer.refine. merit than those simply executed with a piece of charred wood. Immediately above this schistose stratum is a superincumbent mass of sand-stono, which appeared to form the upper stratum of the island." (Cunn/ngm /$.) * Having procured all the spars and planks from tim wreck that could be useful to us, we mad preparations to sail, and at daylight, the got underweigh with my two companions, and �Similar representations w'e found by Mr. White, carved on stoue in the neighbourhood of Port Jackson.--Wmrs's Journal, 4to. p. 141. Digitized by Goo,le

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