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Survey upon the mermaid. Purchase another vessel. New establishment. Departure on the fourth voyage, accompanied by a merchant-ship bound through Torres Strait. Discovery of an addition to the crew. Pass round Breaksea Spit, and steer up the East Coast. Transactions at Percy I...
CARTIER ISLAND, seen in 1800 by the ship Cartier, is a dry sand bank surrounded by a shoal extending for four miles to the northward. It is in 12 degrees 29 minutes South, and 1...
13. Chapter 13The Mermaid passed the point at the distance of three miles, and, when the island bore South 68 degrees West, distant two miles and a half, had four and three-quarter fathoms, w...
8. Chapter 8Passage from Cape Van Diemen to Careening Bay. Not finding water, visit Prince Regent's River, and procure it from the Cascade. Farther examination of the river. Amphibious mud-...
10. Chapter 10Leave King George the Third's Sound, and commence the survey of the West Coast at Rottnest Island. Another remarkable effect of mirage. Anchor under, and land upon Rottnest Isla...
11. Chapter 11The Bathurst sails for England. Remarks upon some errors in the hydrography of the south coast of Van Diemen's Land. King George the Third's Sound. Passage to the Cape of Good H...
7. Chapter 7Survey upon the mermaid. Purchase another vessel. New establishment. Departure on the fourth voyage, accompanied by a merchant-ship bound through Torres Strait. Discovery of an...
9. Chapter 9Departure from Port Louis. Voyage to the South-west Coast of New Holland. Anchor in King George the Third's Sound. Occurrences there. Visited by the Natives. Our intercourse wit...
16. Chapter 16officer, in a country so very little known, and in a situation so remote from any other English settlement, affords an opportunity of collecting objects of natural history, and...
19. Chapter 19quartz, apparently from a vein. Purplish-brown epidote, with small nests or concretions of green epidote and quartz; forming a sort of amygdaloid. Conglomerate, containing angul...
17. Chapter 17of unknown animals are buried together with the shells in the crag of Suffolk; but does not mention the nature of these remains. Since these pages have been at the press, Mr. Wa...
18. Chapter 18The specimens mentioned in the following list have been compared with some of those of England and other countries, principally in the cabinets of the Geological Society, and of...
12. Chapter 12LADY ELLIOT'S ISLAND is a low islet, covered with shrubs and trees, and surrounded by a coral reef, which extends for three-quarters of a mile from its north-east end; the islan...
15. Chapter 15Morgan's Island, a small islet in Blue-Mud Bay, on the north-west of Groote Eylandt, is composed of clink-stone; and other rocks of the trap-formation occur in several places on...
6. Chapter 6SKETCH 1: ISLANDS OFF ADMIRALTY GULF, LOOKING SOUTHWARD FROM THE NORTH-EAST END OF CASSINI ISLAND. Left to right: Corneille, Fenelon, Descartes, and Pascal Islands, Hills on Cap...
5. Chapter 5The Bathurst sails for England. Remarks upon some errors in the hydrography of the south coast of Van Diemen's Land. King George the Third's Sound. Passage to the Cape of Good H...
2. Chapter 2Passage from Cape Van Diemen to Careening Bay. Not finding water, visit Prince Regent's River, and procure it from the Cascade. Farther examination of the river. Amphibious mud-...
1. Chapter 1Survey upon the mermaid. Purchase another vessel. New establishment. Departure on the fourth voyage, accompanied by a merchant-ship bound through Torres Strait. Discovery of an...
4. Chapter 4Leave King George the Third's Sound, and commence the survey of the West Coast at Rottnest Island. Another remarkable effect of mirage. Anchor under, and land upon Rottnest Isla...
3. Chapter 3Departure from Port Louis. Voyage to the South-west Coast of New Holland. Anchor in King George the Third's Sound. Occurrences there. Visited by the Natives. Our intercourse wit...