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While the Calcutta remained at Port Philip, besides the necessary duties of the ship, the crew were actively employed in collecting such specimens of ship-timber as the place afforded; and, about one hundred and fifty pieces of compass-timber, chiefly honeysuckle, were procured^[1].

During the period of uncertainty, between the sailing of the boat, and the return of advices from Port Jackson, the First Lieutenant of the Calcutta, with several other officers, and a party of convicts to carry provisons, proceeded by land to examine Western Port^[2], and ascertain the correctness of the description given of it

1. Vide Addenda, N^o IV.
2. Western Port was discovered by Lieutenant Flinders, in 1799.

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