formerly supposed to be the southern coast or point of New Holland, but now found to be an island, as it is separated from New Holland by Bass's strait, which was discovered by Mr Bass and Lieutenant Flinders in the end of the year 1798. The northern coast is in S. Lat. 40° 55', and between 146° 45' and 148° 15' E. Long. 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 since been further explored by other navigators. Here is a very safe road, named by Captain Cook Adventure Bay. Two other harbours or bays were discovered or explored by Messrs Bass and Flinders, viz. Port Dalrymple and Frederick Henry bay, and two considerable rivers, which have been called Port Dalrymple and Derwent rivers. The parts adjoining to Adventure 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 gray rough cast. The forest trees are all of one kind, generally quite straight, and bearing clusters of small white flowers. The principal plants observed were wood-sorrel, milkwort, cudweed, bellflower, 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