the southern coast or point of New Holland, S. Lat. 43° 21' 28", E. Long. 147° 29". This coast was discovered in November 1642 by Tasman, who gave it the name of Van Diemen's Land. Captain Furneaux touched at it in March 1773, and the country has been since further explored by our late navigators. Here is a very safe road, named by Captain Cook Adventure Bay. The parts adjoining to the bay are mostly hilly, and form an entire forest of tall trees, rendered almost impassable by brakes of fern, shrubs, &c. The soil on the flat land, and on the lower part of the hills, is sandy, or consists of a yellowish earth, and in some parts of a reddish clay; but further up the hills it is of a grey tough cast. This country, upon the whole, bears many marks of being very dry, and the heat appears to be great. No mineral bodies, nor stones of any other kind than the white flint-stone, were observed; nor any vegetables that afforded subsistence for man. The forest-trees are all of one kind, generally quite straight, and bearing clutters of small white flowers. The principal plants observed were wood-falce, milk-wort, cudweed, bell-flower, gladiolus, samphire, and several kinds of fern. The only quadruped seen distinctly was a species of opossum, about twice the size of a large rat. The kangaroo, found farther northward in New Holland, may also be supposed to inhabit here, as some of the inhabitants had pieces of the skin of that animal. The principal sorts of birds in the woods are brown hawks or eagles, crows, large pigeons, yellowish paroquets, and a species which was called molucca cyanea, from the beautiful azure colour of its head and neck. On the shore were several gules, black oyster-catchers or sea-pies, and plovers of a stone-colour. In the woods were seen some blackish snakes of a pretty large size; and a species of lizard fifteen inches long and six round, beautifully