The Narrative of a Voyage of Discovery, Performed in His Majesty's Vessel the Lady Nelson … in the Years 1800, 1801, and 1802, to New South Wales

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In 1800–2 the naval officer James Grant (1772–1833) sailed the Lady Nelson to Australia in order to test a new design of keel. This 1803 publication describes the sea trials, together with his impressions of Cape Town and Australia, their natural history and their indigenous and colonial populations.