par?tions were made thr lea,?in� the pla? which lB11. has afforded us so good an opportunity o/repair- Jaly l? ing our defects. The basis of the country in the vicinity of this fiver, is evidently granitic; and, from the abrupt and primitive appearance of the land about Cape Tribulation and to the .north of W .eary Bay, there is eve? reason to suppose that grauite is also the principal feature of those mountains; but the rocks that lie loosely scattered about the beaches and surface of the hills on the south side of the entrance are of quartzose substance; and this 1/kewise is the character of th6 ?hills at the east end of the long northern beach, where the rocks are coated with a quartzose crust, that in its crumbled state forms a very unproductive soil. The hills on the south side of the port recede from the banks of the river, and form an amphi- theatre of low grassy land, and some tolerable soil, upon the surface of which, in n?ny parts, we found large blocks of granite heaped one upon another. Near the tent we found coal; but the presence of this mineral in a primitive country, at an immense distance from any part where a coal formation is known to exist, would p.uzzle the gee- log/st, were I not to explain all I know upon the subject Upon referring to the late Sir ,Joseph Banks's copy of the Endeavour's log, (in the possession of my friend Mr. Brown,) I found the
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