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'As I went to Sea in the begining of October, I am oblig’d to defer any further account of the Weather at Port Jackson through the different Months in the Year until another opportunity.

I judg’d it better, whilst mentioning the Weather during the different Months, to go on with that by itself, & not to mix it with any other occurrences - I must therefore return back as far as the beginning of March; at which time, as the two French Ships were preparing to leave this Coast, I determind to visit Monsr. de la Perouse before he shoud depart, I accordingly with a few other officers saild round to Botany Bay in the Sirius’s Long boat. We stay’d two days on board the Boussole & were most Hospitably & Politely entertained, & very much prepd to pass a longer time with them. When I took my leave the Weather prov’d too stormy to be able to go along the Coast in an open boat, I therefore left the Longbt.

Left the Longboat on board the Boussole, took my gun & with another officer & two Seamen, travelld thro`the Woods & Swamps of which there were many in our Route and directed our Course by a pocket Compass, which led us within a Mile of our own Encampment, the distance from Botany Bay to Port Jackson across the land & near the sea shore is in a direct line about 8 or 9 Miles and the Country, about two miles to the Southwd. of P. Jackson is high Woods with little or No underwood, but between that and Bo. Bay it is, all thick low Woods or Shrubberys, Barren Heaths, & Swamps; near the Sea, the Land altho` Coverd in many places with Wood is Rocky from the Waterside to the very Summit of the Hills - Whilst walking on shore with the Officers of the T. Ships at Botany Bay, I was shewn by them a little Mount upon the No. Shore which they had discovered & thought a Curiosity, it was quite rocky on the Top the Stones were all standing perpendicularly on their...'