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 Gsotoev.] NATURAL tI!RY. the sketches taken by Captain King and his o. Thi is censpicuous in the neighbourhood of Cape Crnker Darch Island and Palm Bay; at Point Annexlay sad Point Coorobe in Mountnorris Bay;in the !and abont Cape Van Diemen, and on the uorth-wet of Bathurea Island. The eliifs on Roe's River (Prince Frederic's Harbour), as might have been expected from the specimens, are described as of a reddish colour; Cape Lvque is of the same hue; and the northern limit of Shark's Bay, Cape Cuvier of the French, ht. 24 �, which is like an enormous bastion, may be dis- tlnguisbed at a considerable distance by its fell red colour It is on the bank of the chan. nel which separates Bathurst and Melville Islands, near the north-eastern extremity of New Holland, that a new colony has recently been esta- blished: (see Captain King's Narrative, vol. ii** p. 233.) A Permanent station under the superintendence of a British oftloaf, in a country so very litde known, and in �situation so remote from any other English setdement, affords an op* Portnnity of collecting objects of natured history, and of illus- ' tratin various points of great interest to physical ipmgrnphy and meteologT, which it is to be hoped will not be ne= gleeted. And as a very instructive collection, for the natal purposes of geology, .can readily be obtained in such situations, by attending to tt few precautions, I have thout that some brief directions on this subject would not be out of place in the present publication; and have su 'bjoined them to the list of specimens at the close of' this paper** In the vicinity of Cambridge Gulf, Captain Kin states, the charneter of tbe country is entirely chaned;--4md irre* �Freycinet, p.  See Junafter, !me 6S.

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