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by Mr. George Gordon McCrae.)
3. FACSIMILE OF LETTER TO SIR JOSEPH BANKS, 1794.

(Mitchell Library.)
H.M.S Bellerophon
Spithead March 20th 1794.
Sir Joseph,
Yesterdays Post brought me a Letter from Mr. Miles, in Answer to the
one I wrote him for his Power of Attorney, after I had the Honour of
waiting upon you in the Country, at which Time you were pleased to
express a Desire to be informed when it should arrive; in Compliance
with which, I now take the Liberty of addressing you. It seems he has
not sent the Power, but says he enclosd something like one to you by
which it appears he is not exactly acquainted with the Business in
Question, he tells me he has explained his Sense of the Matter in your
Letter and begd that the remaining Sum might be paid to Mr. Dixon or
Mr. Lee, from whom he wishes me to receive it. When I wrote for the
Power, I explaind to him (as far as my Knowledge of the Subject
extended) the Necessity of his sending it, that he was to consider
himself as employd by Government, that it was from the Treasury his
Salary was to be got and that they would require some Authority for
paying it to me - at present Sir, I am at a Loss how to proceed; whether
what he has sent will be sufficient, or whether it will still be necessary
to get a regular Power is what I must trespass upon your Generosity for
a Knowledge of the doing which will add to the Obligation your
Goodness before conferd upon me; with a gratefull Sense of which I
beg leave to subscribe myself, Sir Joseph
your much obligd and
most humble Servant
Mattw. Flinders.
To Sir Jos Banks Bart.
4. TABLET ON MEMORIAL ERECTED BY SIR JOHN FRANKLIN

AT PORT LINCOLN, SOUTH AUSTRALIA.
THIS PLACE
from which the Gulf and its Shores were first surveyed on 26. Feb,
1802 by MATTHEW FLINDERS, R.N. Commander of H.M.S.
Investigator the Discoverer of the Country now called South Australia
was set apart on 12. Jan. 1841 with the sanction of LT. COL.
GAWLER. K.H. then Governor of the Colony and in the first year of
the government of CAPT. G. GREY adorned with this Monument to
the perpetual Memory of the illustrious Navigator his honored
Commander by JOHN FRANKLIN. CAPT. R.N. K.C.H. K.R. LT.
GOVERNOR OF VAN DIEMEN'S LAND.
5. MEMORIAL ON MOUNT LOFTY, SOUTH AUSTRALIA.
FLINDERS COLUMN
IN HONOUR OF MATTHEW FLINDERS
COMMANDER OF THE INVESTIGATOR
WHO FROM KANGAROO HEAD, KANGAROO ISLAND
DISCOVERED AND NAMED MOUNT LOFTY
ON TUESDAY 23RD. MARCH 1802
THIS TABLET WAS UNVEILED AND THE COLUMN NAMED
BY HIS EXCELLENCY LORD TENNYSON. 22ND. MARCH 1902.
6. MAP OF FLINDERS' VOYAGES IN BASS STRAIT.
FLINDERS' VOYAGES IN BASS STRAIT IN THE FRANCIS,
NORFOLK, AND INVESTIGATOR.
7. BASS'S EYE-SKETCH OF WESTERNPORT.

Western Port on the South Coast of NW. SOUTH WALES from Mr.
Bass's Eye-sketch. 1798.
8. PORTRAIT OF GEORGE BASS.
9. PAGE FROM FLINDERS' MANUSCRIPT NARRATIVE OF THE
VOYAGE OF THE FRANCIS, 1798.
(Melbourne Public Library.)
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1798
FEBRUARY SATURDAY 10 close round the rock. At 8, when off a
rocky point on which are two eminences of white stone in the form of
oblique cones inclining inwards, we stood to the southward, and off
and on during the night, keeping the peak and high land of Cape Barren
in sight, the wind, from the westward. SUNDAY 11 At the following
noon, the observed latitude was 40 degrees 41 1/2, Cape Barren bearing
north-by-west. The wind being strong at west-south-west we continued
standing off and on, and lying to occasionally, till day light next
morning, when we made sail MONDAY 12 west-north-west for the
south end of Clarkes Island, having the wind now at north by east. A
little to the westward of the rocky point, which has the inclining cones
upon it, lies an island, between which and the point, is a deep channel
of between half and three-quarters of a mile wide; and about the same
distance to the westward of this island, is another of nearly the same
size: they are rather low and covered with brush and grass. Between
these islands and Clarkes Island, we observed two low islets, and two
rocks above water, the latter not more than three or four miles from us.
To the southward also, we saw the land extending a great distance; but
the whole are better seen in the sketch.
About ten o'clock, the ebb tide was running with such violence, that
although the schooner was going one knot and a half through the water,
yet by the land we were evidently going retrograde almost as much, and
towards the land withal: but the light air that remained enabled us to

draw the