At daybreak, therefore on the 30th of the month, he set out in the pinnace and long-boat accompanied by Mr.Banks, Dr.Solander, and Tupia, and found the inlet, at which they entered, end in a river, about nine miles above the ship.

Up this river, to which was given the name of the Thames, they proceeded till near noon, when they were fourteen miles within its entrance.

As the gentlemen then found the face of the country to continue nearly the same, without any alteration in the course of the stream, and had no hope of tracing it to its source, they landed on the west side, to take a view of the lofty trees which every where adorned its banks.

The trees were of a kind which they had seen before, both in Poverty Bay, and Hawke's Bay, though only at a distance.

They had not walked a hundred yards into the woods, when they met with one of the trees, which, at the height of six feet above the ground, was nineteen feet eight inches in the girt.