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] an aromatic nature, and might be employed for economical ues in the place of thoe aromatics with which we have hitherto been furnihed excluively by the Molucca Ilands.

On the eventh, I was obliged to employ almot the whole day in preparing my collections, which accumulated prodigiouly from day to day. I could therefore extend my reearches only to a very mall ditance from our anchoring-tation. But on the following day, I et out in the afternoon with a deign of pending three or four days in the woods without returning at night to the hips. I was obliged to take this reolution in order to collect pecimens of uch plants as only grew at a coniderable ditance from our tation.

We had a great variety of different kinds of European grain on board, which might be advantageouly propagated at this extremity of New Holland. The temperature that generally prevails in this country led us to hope that they would ucceed. Our gardener was directed to prepare a pot of ground o as to render it fit for receiving this depoit. He dug a mall garden for this purpoe on the eat coat of the harbour, ituated E.N.E. of our place of anchorage.

We lept on the banks of a rivulet near the wetern extremity of the great lake, along the outhern