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LIST OF THE PLATES.
1. Head of Governor Phillip 2. View of Botany Bay 3. Yellow Gum
Plant 4. View in Port Jackson 5. Caspian Tern 6. Natives of Botany
Bay 7. Chart of Norfolk Island 8. Lieutenant King 9. Hut in New South
Wales 10. The Kanguroo 11. View in New South Wales 12. Sketch of
Sydney Cove 13. Axe, Basket, and Sword 14. Plan of Port Jackson 15.
Spotted Opossum 16. Vulpine Opossum 17. Flying Squirrel 18.
Blue-bellied Parrot 19. Tabuan Parrot 20. Pennantian Parrot 21. Pacific
Parrakeet 22. Sacred Kings-fisher 23. Male Superb Warbler 24. Female
Superb Warbler 25. Norfolk Island Petrel 26. Bronze-winged Pigeon 27.
White-fronted Heron 28. Wattled Bee-eater 29. Psittaceous Hornbill 30.
Skeleton of the Head of the Kanguroo and Vulpine Opossum 31. Map
and View of Lord Howe Island 32. Ball's Pyramid 33. Lieutenant
Shortland 34. Chart of the Track of the Alexander 35. Shortland's Chart
of New Georgia 36. Curtis's Isles 37. Macaulay's Isles 38. Track of the
Scarborough 39. A Canoe, &c. Mulgrave's Range 40. Bankian
Cockatoo 41. Red Shouldered Parrakeet 42. New Holland Goat-sucker
43. New Holland Cassowary 44. White Gallinule 45. Dog of New
South Wales 46. Martin Cat 47. Kanguroo Rat 48. Laced Lizard 49.
Bag-throated Balistes 50. Fish of New South Wales 51. Port Jackson
Shark 52. Watt's Shark 53. Great brown Kingsfisher 54. Black flying
Opossum 55. Vignette in title page.--For an explanation see the
Preface.

Chapter I
.
Public utility of voyages--Peculiar circumstances of this--New Holland
properly a continent--Reasons for fixing our settlement
there--Transportation to America, its origin, advantages, and
cessation--Experiments made--The present plan
adopted--Disadvantages of other expedients.
From voyages undertaken expressly for the purpose of discovery, the
public naturally looks for information of various kinds: and it is a fact
which we cannot but contemplate with pleasure, that by the excellent

publications subsequent to such enterprises, very considerable additions
have been made, during the present reign, to our general knowledge of
the globe, of the various tribes by which it is peopled, and of the
animals and vegetables to which it gives support.
An expedition occasioned by motives of legislative policy, carried on
by public authority, and concluded by a fixed establishment in a
country very remote, not only excites an unusual interest concerning
the fate of those sent out, but promises to lead us to some points of
knowledge which, by the former mode, however judiciously employed,
could not have been attained. A transient visit to the coast