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CONTENTS

OF

THE SECOND VOLUME.




Refitting the Ships.—Fossil Trees of Derwent Valley.—Geological Remarks.—Tassman's Peninsula.—Eagle Hawk Neck.—Tesselated Pavement.—Entrecasteaux Channel.—Timber on the Banks of the Huon.—Advantages of Port Arthur.—Mean Level of the Ocean.—Launceston.—Prepare for Sea.—Deviation of the Compass
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Departure from Hobarton.—Anchor in Port Jackson.—Term-day Observations.—Heavy Fall of Rain.—Appearance and State of Sydney.—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
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Suggestions relative to Vaccination.—Communicate with Captain Aulic.—Hourly Observations, Visits of Awara and Pomare.—Dissatisfaction of the New Zealanders.—Influence of the Missionaries.—Climate.—Meteorological Abstracts
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