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CONTENTS.
Sail from Simon's Bay.—The Cape Current.—Aguilhas Bank.—Soundings.—Currents.—Change of Climate.—Prince Edward's Island.—Penguins.—Soundings.—Anchorage.—Crozet Islands.—Possession Island.—East Island.—America Bay.—Sealing Party.—Elephant Fishery.—Anchorages.—East Island.—Dark Head.—Remarkable Rocks.—Iceberg seen.—Oceanic Birds.—Bligh's Cap.—Cape François.—Erebus Bank.—Terror Reef.—Sperm Whales.—Arched Rock.—Christmas Harbour
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Kerguelen Island.—Cook's Visit.—Christmas Harbour.—Table Mount.—Fossil Trees.—Seams of Coal.—Geological Notice of the Formation of the Land in the Vicinity of Christmas Harbour.—Cumberland Bay.—Botanical Notice of Kerguelen Island.—Zoological Notice.—Magnetic Observations.—Violent Gales.—Surveys.—Geographical Position
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Terror Reef.—Beds of Seaweed.—Current.—The Ships part Company.—Hurricane.—Boatswain drowned.—Iceberg seen.—Succession of Gales.—Magnetic Force.—Observations.—Line of no Variation.—Make the Land.—Driven off by a Storm.—Anchor in the Derwent.—Magnetic Observatory.—Term day Observations.—French Expedition.—French Discoveries.—American Expedition.—Selection of Route.—Van Diemen's Land.—Society of Hobart Town.—Proposed College.—Magnetometrical Observations.—Situation of Observatory
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Preparations for Sea.—Storm Bay.—Auckland Islands.—Black Head.—Bristow Rock.—Enderby Island.—Rendezvous Harbour.—French Expedition.—United States Brig Porpoise.—Magnetometric Observations.—Local Attraction.—
