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    His Majestys ship Reliance arrived at Port Jackson [missing]
1795, which was the eighth year of the colonys establishment. {During}
this period, the knowledge of the sea coast and harbours, which
had been gained in addition to captain Cooks examination, was
as follows: – Port Jackson, and almost the whole of its numerous
branches had been surveyed or examined, as far as navigation
was poƒsible, by His Excellency the present governor, then second
captain of His Majestys ship Syrius [sic]. Broken Bay had been
explored in the same way, and the river Hawkesbury also,
until it divides ^ ^itself into the Nepean or Tenches River, and the Grose:
the entrances into which were also known for a few miles. Port
Stephens had been visited by M^r Nichol, master of the ship Sala-
mander, and by M ^r Grimes, the deputy surveyor to the colony;
and captain Broughton of His Majestys ship Providence, fal-
-ling to leeward of Port Jackson in his paƒsage from Rio de Janei-
-ro, found it convenient to put into Port Stephens. He made a
marine survey of the lower part of the harbour, and laid down
its situation with more accuracy than any of its former visit-
-ors had been enabled to do; but the intermediate coast be-
-tween Broken Bay and Port Stephens remained still unknown,
further than from captain Cooks chart.
      To the southward of Port Jackson, the coast of Botany Bay,
and the bay itself, had been explored and surveyed by governor
Hunter; Cooks River had been also examined, as far as boats
could