The pine-trees growing there are described to be of a growth and height superior, perhaps, to any in the world.

But the difficulty of bringing them away will not be easily surmounted, from the badness and danger of the landing place.

After the most exact search not a single plant of the New Zealand flax could be found, though we had been taught to believe it abounded there.
Lieutenant Ball, in returning to Port Jackson, touched at a small island in latitude 31 deg 36 min south, longitude 159 deg 4 min east of Greenwich, which he had been fortunate enough to discover on his passage to Norfolk, and to which he gave the name of Lord Howe's Island.

It is entirely without inhabitants, or any traces of any having ever been there.

But it happily abounds in what will be infinitely more important to the settlers on New South Wales: green turtle of the finest kind frequent it in the summer season.