25' south, longitude 159 deg.

59' east, a very dangerous reef has since been seen.

The ship from which it was observed was then four leagues to the southward, and it could not at that time be ascertained how far it extends to the northward.
To expedite the cultivation of Norfolk Island a fresh detachment was sent thither in October, consisting of an officer and eight marines, with thirty convicts, consisting of ten women and twenty men: Thus, there existed on this islet, when the last accounts were transmitted, forty-four men and sixteen women, who, having eighteen months provisions, lived comfortably on this sequestered spot, under the prudent management of a youthful ruler, of whose busy life the reader may wish to know all the particulars, which at present can be authentically told.
Philip Gidley King, who had the honour to conduct the original settlers to Norfolk Island, was born at Launceston in Cornwall, on the 23d of April, 1758.

He is the son of Philip King, of that town, draper, who married the daughter of John Gidley, of Exeter, attorney at law.

Much as he owes to his parents, he is indebted for his scholastic learning to Mr.
Bailey at Yarmouth.