PRODUCTION NOTES: 

Notes referred to in the book (*) are shown in square brackets ([]) at the end of the paragraph in which the note is indicated.

Italics are indicated by underscore characters (_) at the start and finish of the italicised words.

References to the charts have been retained though, of course, the charts are not present in the text only version of the ebook.

The original punctuation and spelling and the use of italics and capital letters to highlight words and phrases have, for the most part, been retained.  I think they help maintain the “feel” of the book, which was published nearly 200 years ago.  Flinders notes in the preface that “I heard it declared that a man who published a quarto volume without an index ought to be set in the pillory, and being unwilling to incur the full rigour of this sentence, a running title has been affixed to all the pages; on one side is expressed the country or coast, and on the opposite the particular part where the ship is at anchor or which is the immediate subject of examination; this, it is hoped, will answer the main purpose of an index, without swelling the volumes.”  This treatment is, of course, not possible, where there are no defined pages.  However, Flinders’ page headings are included at appropriate places where they seem relevant.  These, together with the Notes which, in the book, appear in the margin, are represented as line headings with a blank line before and after them.

A voyage to Terra Australis
undertaken for the purpose of completing the discovery of that
vast country,
and prosecuted in the years
1801, 1802 and 1803,
in
his majesty’s ship the investigator,
and subsequently in the armed vessel porpoise
and Cumberland schooner. 
With an account of the
shipwreck of the porpoise,
arrival of the Cumberland at Mauritius, and imprisonment of the
commander during six years and A half in that island. 
By Matthew Flinders
commander of the investigator. 
In 2 volumes with an Atlas. 
Volume 2. 
London: 
Printed by W. Bulmer and Co.  Cleveland row,
and published by G. And W. Nicol, booksellers to his majesty,
Pall-Mall.
1814