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rty, which is officially confirmed. Occurrences during eleven weeks residence in the town of Port Louis and on board the Harriet cartel. Parole and certificates. Departure from Port Louis, and embarkation in the Otter. Eulogium on the inhabitants of Mauritius. Review of the conduct of general De Caen. Passage to the Cape of Good Hope, and after seven weeks stay, from thence to England. Conclusion. APPENDIX. No. I. Account of the observations by which the _Longitudes_ of places on the east and north coasts of Terra Australis have been settled. No. II. On the errors of the compass arising from attractions within the ship, and others from the magnetism of land; with precautions for obviating their effects in marine surveying. No. III. General Remarks, geographical and systematical, on the Botany of Terra Australis. By ROBERT BROWN, F. R. S. _Acad. Reg. Scient. Berolin. Corresp._ NATURALIST TO THE VOYAGE. A LIST OF THE PLATES, WITH DIRECTIONS TO THE BINDER. IN VOLUME I. View from the south side of King George's Sound. Entrance of Port Lincoln, taken from behind Memory Cove. View on the north side of Kangaroo Island. View of Port Jackson, taken from the South Head. IN VOLUME II. View of Port Bowen, from behind the Watering Gully. View of Murray's Islands, with the natives offering to barter. View in Sir Edward Pellew's Group--Gulph of Carpentaria. View of Malay Road, from Pobassoo's Island. View of Wreck-Reef Bank, taken at low water. IN THE ATLAS. Plate. I. General Chart of TERRA AUSTRALIS and the neighbouring lands, from latitude 7 deg. to 441/2 deg. south, and longitude 102 deg. to 165 deg. east. II. Particular chart of the South Coast, from Cape Leeuwin to the Archipelago of the Recherche. III. Ditto from the Archipelago of the Recherche to past the head of the great Australian Bight. IV. Ditto from the head of the great Australian Bight to past Encounter Bay. V. Ditto from near Encounter Bay to Cape Otway at the west entrance of Bass' Strait. VI. Ditto from Cape Otway, past Cape Howe, to Barmouth Creek. VII. Particular chart of Van Diemen's Land. VIII. Particular chart of the East Coast, from Barmouth Creek to past Cape Hawke. IX. Ditto from near Cape Hawke to past Glass-house Bay. X. Ditto from Glass-house Bay to Broad Sound. XI. Ditto from Broad Sound to Cape Grafton. XII. Ditto from Cape Grafton to the Isle of Direction. XIII. Particular chart of
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