Excerpt from The Australia Directory, Vol. 1
The principal sources from whence the following Directions have been obtained are, Captain Flinder's original Survey, and Captain King's subsequent examination of various parts of the coast. Large extracts have likewise been made from the voyages of the French officers D'Entrecasteaux and Freycinet; and the Reports of Lieutenant Jeffreys, and the Remark Books of several of His Majesty's ships, have furnished much valuable information.
But Australia has been so recently colonised, and till lately so little and so partially visited, that a full description of its coasts, or complete directions for its harbours, cannot yet be compiled. The more scanty, however, the materials that we possess, the more necessary it is to collect and to present them in a connected form to the intelligent seaman. He will thus be enabled to correct what is erroneous, to supply what is omitted, and to reconcile the conflicting statements of previous navigators.
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