&0 THE EARLY HISTOEY UF MARIA ISLAND, 



tory. I have been privileged to recall a few of these in the 

 foregoing pages, but there are doubtless many more even 

 moie interesting ones which I am not aware of but which 

 will I hope be placed on record by those in possession of 

 them before the records relating to them are forgotten. 

 Sufficient has been written, I think, in order to show what 

 interesting periods of historj^ this island has seen. 



NOTES ON TPIE NOMENCLATUKE. 



Oape Boullanger. Thi'o was named after a. member 

 of Baudins expedition, as shown by the following passage : 



"En cffet a peine on a double le cap Nord, qui, du 

 ''nom dc notre ingcnieur, rte appele Cap Boullanger. 

 "... En evant du cap Boullanger, se presente 

 "un grosse roche, qui se rattache a File Maria par une 

 "traint^e de recifs dangereux ; cette roche est precede 

 "dun gros ilot granitique, pen eleve, sterile, et qui 

 "laisse entre la terre et lui un passage practicable 

 "seulement pour le petites embarcations. Nous 

 "rappelames Ihd dii Xord.'' 



On Baudin's Charts (Carte d'une parte de la Cote 

 orientale de la Terre de Diemen dresse par L. Freycinet 

 d'apres ses observations et celles de MM. Faure et Boul- 

 langer. Fevrier 1802). Cap Boullanger is unmistakably 

 shown as the northern point of Maria Island, thus bearing 

 out the description in the text. On Flinders' Chart (South 

 Coast, sheet 6), "C. Boullanger or Coxcomb Head " appears 

 east of its true location. The present maps issued by the 

 Lands Department show Cape Boullanger as the point 

 near the Bishop and Clerk. This is by nO' means its cor- 

 rect position, and it should be transferred back to its orig- 

 inal placD — the extreme north point of Maria Island, op- 

 posite the I. du Nord (3'^). The point where it appears on 

 the present day maps is generally known as ''The Bishop^ 

 and Clerk" after the prominent mountain of that nam-e 

 which projects boldly seawards at this point. This is the 

 "cock's-comb-like"" head referred to by Flinders. 



By some strange alteration "Coxcomb's Head," which 

 appears upon Flinders' Charts of 1798-9 (published 1814) 

 as a 'Sjynonym of Cape Boullanger, now appears on the 

 Lands Departments Charts as a synonym of Cape Mis- 

 taken. But even this latter Cape has been misplaced, as 

 I shall show later. 



Cape Mistaken. So named by Captain John Henry 

 Cox of the Brig Mercury in 1789. The name on modern 



(37) The 1. du Nord is variously called locally "North Id.," 

 "Green Id.," "Rabbit Id.," or "Goat Id." 



