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Seal Hunting on the Pack Ice. Page 162.


CHAPTER II.


Departure from Hobarton.—Anchor in Port Jackson.—Termday Observations.—Heavy Fall of Rain.—Appearance and State of Sidney.—Paramatta Observatory.—Magnetic Observations at Garden Island.—Sail from Port Jackson.—Change of Temperature.—Coast Current.—Falling Stars.—Temperature of the Ocean.—Coral Bank.—Cape Maria Van Diemen.—Bay of Islands.—Anchor in the Kawa Kawa.—The American Corvette, Yorktown.—Position of Observatory.