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] The crita marina is found upon thee hores. I dicovered at a little ditance from them a new pecies of parley, which I named apium protratum, on account of the poition of its tem, which always creeps along the ground. Its analogy with the other pecies of the ame genus, led me to think it might be good to eat, and it anwered my expectations. We carried a large quantity of it on board with us, which was acceptable to mariners who felt the neceity of obviating, by vegetable diet, the bad effects of the alt proviions on which we had lived during the whole of our paage from the Cape of Good Hope to that of Van Diemen.

Cretin, one of the officers of our hip, together with the engineer, had been ent with the longboat by our Commander, in order to reconnoitre Tempet-bay. They brought intelligence at their return, after having advanced fifteen or twenty thouand toies into a channel which we had left on our right when we entered the bay, that every appearance concurred to make it probable that this was a trait. Wherever they had ounded they found very good anchorage ground.

29th. I was very little on hore during the two following days.

30th. The whole forenoon I employed in decribing and preparing the copious collections which