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CONTENTS OF THE FIRST VOLUME.
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of the colony, as regarding the effect of floods upon the River Hawkesbury:—Re-equipment and final departure:—Visit Port Bowen:—Cutter thrown upon a sandbank:—Interview with the natives, and description of the country about Cape Clinton:—Leave Port Bowen:—Pass through the Northumberland, and round the Cumberland Islands:—Anchor at Endeavour River:—Summary of observations taken there:—Visit from the natives:—Vocabulary of their language:—Observations thereon in comparing it with Captain Cook's account:—Mr. Cunningham visits Mount Cook:—Leave Endeavour River, and visit Lizard Island:—Cape Flinders and Pelican Island:—Entangled in the reefs:—Haggerston's Island, Sunday Island, and Cairncross Island:—Cutter springs a leak:—Pass round Cape York:—Endeavour Strait:—Anchor under Booby Island:—Remarks upon the Inner and Outer routes through Torres Strait.

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Cross the Gulf of Carpentaria, and anchor at Goulburn's South Island:—Affair with the natives:—Resume the survey of the coast at Cassini Island:—Survey of Montagu Sound, York Sound, and Prince Frederic's Harbour:—Hunter's and Roe's Rivers, Port Nelson, Coronation Islands:—Transactions at Careening Bay:—Repair the cutter's bottom:—General geognostical and botanical observations:—Natives' huts:—Brunswick Bay:—Prince Regent's River:—Leave the coast in a leaky state:—Tryal Rocks, Cloates Island:—Pass round the west and south coasts:—Bass Strait:—Escape from shipwreck:—Botany Bay:—Arrival at Port Jackson.

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