Many of them are now to be seen in the highest perfection at the nursery gardens of that eminent and learned botanist, Mr.Lee, of Hammersmith: who still retains enough of zeal for his favourite science, to regret that the discovery of those countries was not made at a period of his life, when he could have gone personally to reap the glorious harvest they afford.
* * * * * The following account of the weather in Botany Bay and Port Jackson, communicated by Lieutenant Watts, may perhaps be found important.
During the seven days we were in Botany Bay the weather was generally fine, and very warm.

The thermometer on a mean stood at 78 deg..

it never exceeded 80 deg..

and one day, which was thick and rainy, the wind blowing strongly from the south, it fell to 63 deg..

In Port Jackson the weather was at first much the same, but afterwards, the days became very hot, and the nights constantly brought on tremendous thunder, lightning, and rain.