Australia

Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia — Vol. 1 Performed between the years 1818 and 1822

THE rapidly-increasing importance to which the English Colonies in Australia have now arrived, rendering every subject connected with that extensive continent of the greatest interest, whether in respect to its geography, or the extraordinary assemblage of its animal and veget...

Chapters

14. CHAPTER 2.

Examination of Rowley's Shoals, and Passage to the North Coast. Survey of Goulburn Islands, Mountnorris and Raffles Bays. Meet a Malay Fleet, and communicate with one of the Pro...

22. CHAPTER 10.

Cross the Gulf of Carpentaria, and anchor at Goulburn's South Island. Affair with the natives. Resume the survey of the coast at Cassini Island. Survey of Montagu Sound, York So...

19. CHAPTER 7.

Cross the Gulf of Carpentaria, and resume the survey of the North Coast at Wessel's Islands. Castlereagh Bay. Crocodile Islands. Discovery and examination of Liverpool River. Na...

13. CHAPTER 1.

Intended mode of proceeding, and departure from Port Jackson. Visit Twofold Bay. Natives seen. Passage through Bass Strait and along the South Coast to King George the Third's S...

17. CHAPTER 5.

Departure from Port Jackson, and commence a running survey of the East Coast. Examinations of Port Macquarie and the River Hastings in company with the Lady Nelson, colonial bri...

21. CHAPTER 9.

Equipment for the third voyage. Leave Port Jackson. Loss of bowsprit, and return. Observations upon the present state of the colony, as regarding the effect of floods upon the R...

18. CHAPTER 6.

Transactions at Endeavour River, and intercourse with the Natives. Examine the River. Geognostical Remarks. Leave Endeavour River, and resume the examination of the coast. Ancho...

20. CHAPTER 8.

Examination of the coast between Cape Londonderry and Cape Voltaire, containing the surveys of Sir Graham Moore's Islands, Eclipse Islands, Vansittart Bay, Admiralty Gulf, and P...

15. CHAPTER 3.

Transactions at Coepang. Procure Water and Refreshments. Description of the Town and Productions of the Island. Account of the Trepang Fishery on the coast of New Holland. Depar...

12. VOLUME 1.

Nearly three centuries* have now elapsed since our first knowledge of the Great South Land, the Terra Australis Incognita of ancient geographers; and, until within the last cent...

16. CHAPTER 4.

Visit to Van Diemen's Land, and examination of the entrance of Macquarie Harbour. Anchor in Pine Cove and cut wood. Description of the Trees growing there. Return to the entranc...

1. VOLUME 1.

THE rapidly-increasing importance to which the English Colonies in Australia have now arrived, rendering every subject connected with that extensive continent of the greatest in...

10. CHAPTER 9.

Equipment for the third voyage. Leave Port Jackson. Loss of bowsprit, and return. Observations upon the present state of the colony, as regarding the effect of floods upon the R...

6. CHAPTER 5.

Departure from Port Jackson, and commence a running survey of the East Coast. Examinations of Port Macquarie and the River Hastings in company with the Lady Nelson, colonial bri...

8. CHAPTER 7.

Cross the Gulf of Carpentaria, and resume the survey of the North Coast at Wessel's Islands. Castlereagh Bay. Crocodile Islands. Discovery and examination of Liverpool River. Na...

9. CHAPTER 8.

Examination of the coast between Cape Londonderry and Cape Voltaire, containing the surveys of Sir Graham Moore's Islands, Eclipse Islands, Vansittart Bay, Admiralty Gulf, and P...

11. CHAPTER 10.

Cross the Gulf of Carpentaria, and anchor at Goulburn's South Island. Affair with the natives. Resume the survey of the coast at Cassini Island. Survey of Montagu Sound, York So...

3. CHAPTER 2.

Examination of Rowley's Shoals, and Passage to the North Coast. Survey of Goulburn Islands, Mountnorris and Raffles Bays. Meet a Malay Fleet, and communicate with one of the Pro...

2. CHAPTER 1.

Intended mode of proceeding, and departure from Port Jackson. Visit Twofold Bay. Natives seen. Passage through Bass Strait and along the South Coast to King George the Third's S...

7. CHAPTER 6.

Transactions at Endeavour River, and intercourse with the Natives. Examine the River. Geognostical Remarks. Leave Endeavour River, and resume the examination of the coast. Ancho...

4. CHAPTER 3.

Transactions at Coepang. Procure Water and Refreshments. Description of the Town and Productions of the Island. Account of the Trepang Fishery on the coast of New Holland. Depar...

5. CHAPTER 4.

Visit to Van Diemen's Land, and examination of the entrance of Macquarie Harbour. Anchor in Pine Cove and cut wood. Description of the Trees growing there. Return to the entranc...