A voyage to Terra australis : undertaken for the purpose of completing the discovery of that vast country.... Vol. 1 / by Matthew Flinders,...

Preliminary Remarks: Discoveries of the Duythen; of Terres; Carstens; Pool; Pietersen; Tasman; and of three Dutch vessels. Of Cook; M Chier; Bligh; Edwnds; Bligh and Portlock; and Bampton and Alt. Conclusive Remarks.

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Preliminary Observations. Discoveries of Hartog: Edel: of the ship Leeuwin: the Vianen: of Pelsert: Tasman: Dampier: Vlaming: Dampier. Conclusive Remarks.

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Discovery of Nuyts. Examination of Vancouver: of D'Entrecasteaux. Conclusive Remarks.

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Preliminary Observations. Discoveries of Tasman; of Cook; Marion; and Furneaux. Observations of Cook; Bligh; and Cox. Discovery of D'Entrecasteaux. Hayes.

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Preliminary Information. Boat expeditions of Bass and Flinders. Clarke. Shortland. Discoveries of Bass to the southward of Port Jackson; of Flinders; and of Flinders and Bass. Examinations to the northward by Flinders. Conclusive Remarks.

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Appointment to the Investigator. Outlit of the ship. Instruments, books, and charts supplied, with articles for presents and barter. Liberal conduct of the Hon. East-India Company. Passage round to Spithend. The Roar sand. Instructions for the execution of the voyage. French passport, and orders in consequence. Officers and company of the Investigator, and men of science who embarked. Account of the time keeper.

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Departure from Spithead. Variation of the compass. The Dezertas. Arrival at Madeira. Remarks on Funchal. Political state of the island. Latitude and longitude. Departure from Madeira. The Island St. Antonio. Foul winds; and remarks on them. The ship leaky. Search made for Isle Sable. Trinidad. Saxemberg sought for. Variation of the compass. State of the ship's company, on arriving at the Cape of Good Hope. Refitment at Simon's Bay. Observatory set up. The astronomer quits the expedition. Rates of the time keepers. Some remarks on Simon's Bay.

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Departure from False Bay. Remarks on the passage to Terra Australis. Gravity of sea water tried. Cape Leeuwin, and the coast from thence to King George's Sound. Arrival in the Sound. Examination of the harbours. Excursion island. Country, soil, and productions. Native inhabitants: Language and anatomical measurement. Astronomical and nautical observations.

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Departure from King George's Sound. Coast from thence to the Archipelago of the Recherche. Discovery of Lucky Bay and Thistle's Cove. The surrounding country, and islands of the Archipelago. Astronomical and nautical observations. Goose-Island Bay. A salt lake. Nautical observations. Coast from the Archipelago to the end of Nuyts'Land. Arrival in a bay of the unknown coast. Remarks on the preceding examination.

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Fowler's Bay. Departure from thence. Arrival at the Isles of St. Francis. Correspondence between the winds and the marine barometer. Examination of the other parts of Nuyts' Archipelago, and of the main coast. The Isles of St. Peter. Return to St. Francis. General remarks on Nuyts'Archipelago. Identification of the islands in the Dutch chart.

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Prosecution of the discovery of the unknown coast. Auxious Bay. Anchorage at Waldegrave's and at Flinders'Islands. The Investigator's Group. Coffin's Bay. Whidbey's Isles. Differences in the magnetic needle. Cape Wiles. Anchorage at Thistle's Island. Thorny Passage. Fatal accident. Anchorage in Memory Cove. Cape Catastrophe, and the surrounding country. Anchorage in Port Lincoln, and refitment of the ship. Remarks on the country and inhabitants. Astronomical and nautical observations.

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Departure from Port Lincoln. Sir Joseph Banks'Group. Examination of the coast, northward. The ship found to be in a gulph. Anchorage near the head of the gulph. Boat expedition. Excursion to Mount Brown. Nautical observations. Departure from the head, and examination of the east side of the gulph. Extensive shoal. Point Pearce. Hardwicke Bay. Verification of the time keepers. General remarks on the gulph. Cape Spencer and the Althorpe Isles. New land discovered: Anchorage there. General remarks on Kanguroo Island. Nautical observations.

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Departure from Kanguroo Island. Examination of the main coast, from Cape Spencer eastward. The Investigator's Strait. A new gulph discovered. Anchorage at, and examination of the head. Remarks on the surrounding land. Return down the gulph. Troubridge Shoal. Yorke's Peninsula. Return to Kanguroo Island. Boat expedition to Pelican Lagoon. Astronomical observations. Kanguroo Island quitted. Back-stairs Passage. The coast from Cape Jervis, castward. Meeting, and communication with Le Géographe. Remarks upon the French discoveries on the South Coast.

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Examination of the coast resumed. Encounter Bay. The capes Bernouilli and Jaffa. Baudin's Rocks. Differences in the bearings on tacking. Cape Buffon, the eastern limit of the French discovery. The capes Northumberland and Bridgewater of captain Grant. Danger from a south-west gale. King's Island, in Bass'Strait: Anchorage there. Some account of the island. Nautical observations. New Year's Isles. Cape Otway, and the north-west entrance to Bass'Strait. Anchorage in, and examination of Port Phillip. The country and inhabitants. Nautical observations.

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Departure from Port Phillip. Cape Schanck. Wilson's Promontory, and its isles. Kent's Groups, and Furneaux's Isles. Hills behind the Long Beach. Arrival at Port Jackson. Health of the ship's company. Refitment and supply of the ship. Price of provisions. Volunteers entered. Arrangement for the succeeding part of the voyage. French ships. Astronomical and nautical observations.

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Of the winds and currents on the south coast of Terra Australia, and in Bass'Strait. Unsual progress of the gales. Proper seasons for sailing eastward, and for going westward: best places of shelter in either case, with some instructions for the Strait.

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Account of the observations by which the Longitudes of places on the north coast of Terra Australis have been settled.

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Departure from Port Jackson, with the Lady Nelson. Examination of various parts of the East Coast, from thence to Sandy Cape. Break-sea Spit. Anchorage in Hervey's Bay, where the Lady Nelson joins after a separation. Some account of the inhabitants. Variations of the compass. Run to Bastard Bay. Port Curtis discovered, and examined. Some account of the surrounding country. Arrival in Keppel Bay, and examination of its branches, one of which lends into Port Curtis. Some account of the natives, and of the country round Keppel Bay. Astronomical and nautical observations.

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The Keppel Isles, and coast to Cape Manifold. A new port discovered and examined. Harvey's Isles. A new passage into Shoal-water Bay. View from Mount Westall. A boat lost. The upper parts of Shoal-water Bay examined. Some account of the country and inhabitants. General remarks on the bay. Astronomical and nautical observations.

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Departure from Shoal-water Bay, and anchorage in Thirsty Sound. Magnetical observations. Boat excursion to the nearest Northumberland Islands. Remarks on Thirsty Sound. Observations at West Hill, Broad Sound. Anchorage near Upper Head. Expedition to the head of Broad Sound: another round Long Island. Remarks on Broad Sound, and the surrounding country. Advantages for a colony. Astronomical observations, and remarks on the high tides.

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The Perey Isles: anchorage at No. 2. Boat excursions. Remarks on the Perey Isles; with nautical observations. Coral reefs: courses amongst them during eleven days search of a passage through, to sea. Description of a reef. Anchorage at an eastern Cumberland Isle. The Lady Nelson sent back to Port Jackson. Continuation of coral reefs; and courses amongst them during three other days. Cape Gloucester. An opening discovered, and the reefs quitted. General remarks on the Great Barrier; with some instruction relative to the opening.

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Passage from the Barrier Reefs to Torres'Strait. Reefs named Eastern Fields. Pandora's Entrance to the Strait. Anchorage at Murray's Islands. Communication with the inhabitants. Half-way-Island. Notions on the formation of coral islands in general. Prince of Wales's Islands, with remarks on them. Wallis'Isles. Entrance into the Gulph of Carpentaria. Review of the passage through Torres'Strait.

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Examination of the coast on the cast side of the Gulph of Carpentaria. Landing at Coen River. Head of the Gulph. Anchorage at Sweers'Island. Interview with Indians at Horse-shoe Island. Investigator's Road. The ship found to be in a state of decay. General remarks on the islands at the Head of the Gulph, and their inhabitants. Astronomical and nautical observations.

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Departure from Sweers'Island. South side of C. Van Diemen examined. Anchorage at Bountiful Island: turtle and sharks there. Laud of C. Van Diemen proved to be an island. Examination of the main coast to Cape Vanderlin. That cape found to be one of a group of islands. Examination of the islands; their soil, & c. Monument of the natives. Traces of former visitors to these parts. Astronomical and nautical observations.

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landing on it. Circumnavigation of Groote Eylandt. Specimens of native art at Chasm Island. Anchorage in North-west Bay, Groote Eylandt; with remarks and nautical observations. Blue-mud Bay. Skirmish with the natives. Cape Shield. Mount Grindall. Coast to Caledon Bay. Occurrences in that bay, with remarks on the country and inhabitants. Astronomical and nautical observations.

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Departure from Caledon Bay. Cape Arahem. Melville Bay. Cape Wilherforee, and Bromby's Isles. The English Company's Islands: meeting there with vessels from Macassar, Arnhem Bay. The Wessel's Islands. Further examination of the North Coast postponed. Arrival at Coepang Bay, in Timor. Remarks and astronomical observations.

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Departure from Timor. Search made for the Trinl Rocks. Anchorage in Goose-Island Bay. Interment of the boatswain, and sickly state of the ship's company. Escape from the bay, and passage through Bass Strait. Arrival at Port Jackson. Losses in men. Survey and condemnation of the ship. Plans for continuing the survey; but preparation finally made for returning to England. State of the colony at Port Jackson.

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View from the south side of King George's Sound.

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Entrance of Port Lincoln, taken from behind Memory Cove.

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View on the north side of Kanguroo Island.

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View of Port Jackson, taken from the South Head.

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View of Port Bowen, from behind the Watering Gully.

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View of Murray's Islands, with the natives offering to barter.

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View in Sir Edward Pellew's Group-Gulph of Carpentaria.

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View of Malay Road, from Pobassoo's Island.

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