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594 BIBUOGRAPHY Biblio- with sliding keels, in the years 1800, 1801, and 1802, to New gt&ghj. South Wales. By James Grant, Lieutenant in the Royal Navy. Illustrated. 4to., pp. xxvi, 195. London, 1803. Bnmey: — A Chronological History of the Discoveries in the South Sea or Pacific Ocean. Illustrated with charts. By James Bumey, Captain in the Royal Navy. 4 vols., 4to. London, 1803-1816. The first volume contains an inquiry concerning the earliest discovery of New Holland, pp. 377-383. The chart prefixed shows the outline of Terra Australis Nondum Cognita, as it was supposed to be previous to 1579. The second volume contains several chapters relating to dis- coveries in the South Sea : — c. xvi : Preliminary to the Discoveries of de Quires. c._ xvii : Voyage of de Quiros. c. xxi : First Certain Knowledge Obtained of the Great Terra Australis. The appendix contains — I» Relation of de Torres concerning the discoveries of Quiros as his Almirante, dated Manila, July 12th, 1607. II. Information collected from the natives of islands in the South Sea by de Quiros in 1606, and inserted by him in his memorials, concerning undiscovered lands situated in the neigh- bourhood of the Australia del Espiritu Santo. The chart prefixed shews the discoveries of de Quiros under the name Australia del Espiritu Santo. The fourth volume contains : — c. vii : Voyage of Captain William Dampier, in the Roebuck, to New Holland and New Guinea. c. ix : Voyages of the Dutch for the further discovery of New Holland and New Guinea. c. xii : Plan for a Voyage of Discovery to the Terra Australis, proposed by John Welbe. [Ante, p. 568.] Howe: — New South Wales Pocket Almanack and Colonial Remembrancer for the year of our Lord and Saviour 1806. 12mo., pp. 58. Sydney, 1806. Contains, in addition to the tables of months, Observations on Gardens, Agriculture, and Sheep; Chronology of Many Local Occurrences, Remarkable and Interesting; Arrival and Final Departure of Vessels at Port Jackson ; Abridgment of General Orders ; and a General list of Officers, Civil and Military. Anon : — An account of the English colony at Botany Bay, and other settlements in New South Wales, from their establishment to the present time.; with iiemarks on the. manners, cusfomp, disposi- Digitized by Google