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�-COAS'r?,OI? AUSFR?UA.. �'?21 ?as ]hthurse nils Fo? Eughnd**.--Remarks upou tone etTors in tim h?drof'ruphy o? the soa?h ?efot of Va? Diemen's land**--* King 0eoFge the Third'. Sound.---Puuffe to the Cape of Good Hope :--Cro? the Atlantic, ?nd arrive at Plymouth Sound: --Oimrvatiom upon the voyase?, ?ad c?nclusion, U?os an examination of the brig's defects, alter leit. our arrival at Port Jackson, her stem and A?'? to cut-water were found so defective, as to re-9q?. .quire a considerable repair; but from the diffi- * culty of procuring seasoned wood, so long a time ?lapsed before it was. effected, that we were not �ready for sea until the beginnin? of September, -when other delays of minor importance detained us until the 25th. At Port Jackson I found orders from the I?ords Commissioners of the Admiralty to re- turn to England in the Bathurst when the sur- vey should be completed; but as we were in . want of many things that the colony could not. furnish, and as we should be detained' until the. month of February before the mon- sco? ? allow of, our going upon the coast;