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relation to our own royal family, we have PAilips-town in the 

 King's county, and Jfary-borough in the Qtieen's ; the Eliza- 

 befh-\diiis named by Drake, and Firgin-io. by Raleigh ; James's 

 Town in New England (James I) ; C/iarles-ton and Mafy-hnS. 

 from Charles I and his queen Henrietta Maria; and while 

 many places, both in the old and new continents, bear the 

 name of George III, in 1769 Cook referred to his queen in the 

 name Queen Charlotte^ s Sound. In 1776 Cook introduced 

 three sons of the king, thus. Cape Prince of Wales (the late 

 George lY), Prince William's Sound (the late William IV), 

 and Prince Edward's Island (the late Duke of Kent). The 

 name of our present queen is connected with Victoria Town, 

 Fort, River, and Land ; and a part of her name not officially 

 used, is recorded in lake Alexandrina, of New Holland. 



2. Illustrious Men. Astoria was named from Astor ; and 

 Washington, Jefferson, and Franklin, from those persons re- 

 spectively. The Sandwich Islands were so named by Cook 

 in 1774, in compliment to the Earl of Sandwich; Spe7icer's 

 Gulf, by Elinders in 1790, from the Eirst Lord of the Admi- 

 ralty ; and in the colonies, the Governor or some other colo- 

 nial official, generally has his name attached to new places. 

 Thus the Darling River was so named by Sturt from Governor 

 Darling in 1829; and Brisbane plains, 6^J9^5\9 land, Macquaire 

 harbour, are on the same principle. Golfe Bonaparte and 

 Golfe Josephine in New Holland, were so named by the 

 French, after they had received English names. 



3. Friends of the Discoverers. Parmentier was so named 

 by De Fonte in 1640 ; Puerto de Monterey by Viscayno in 

 1602 ; and Fort Franklin by Franklin's officers in 1824. In 

 the recent voyage of discovery by Sir John Ross, to the 

 Southern and Antarctic regions, very many of the names were 

 of this class. For example. Mount Sahine (from Lt. Col. S.) ; 

 Cape Downshire (the late Marquis of D.) ; Cape Adare (Visct. 

 A.) ; Coulman Island (Thomas Coulman, Esq.) ; Franklin 

 Island (Sir John F.) ; and Beaufort Island (Admiral B.) 



