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NOTES IN REFERENCE TO " SCOTT'S TRACK," VIA 

 LAKE ST. CLAIR. TO THE WEST COAST OF 

 TASMANIA. 



By James Andrew. 



I have been requested by a Fellow of this Society, whom 

 circumstances prevent from himself representing the subject 

 dealt with in these notes, to call attention to an error in the 

 designation of a track which appeared in a paper on " The 

 Highlands of Lake St. Clair," read at the November meeting 

 by Colonel Legge, 



The member to whom I refer, Mr. T. B. Moore, is well 

 known as an explorer, and he asks me to bring under the 

 notice of the Royal Society that " Scott's Track," along the 

 Cuvier Valley and westward to the coast, is, as such, incor- 

 rectly described. 



Of my own knowledge I can state that it was Mr. Moore 

 who explored this route and cut the track referred to, along 

 which, many weeks later, the Hon. J. R. Scott travelled. 

 Having preserved my notes taken at the time, and from 

 reference to various public docmuents, I am enabled, with 

 the permission of the Council of the Society, to lay before 

 you a brief statement of the nature desired by Mr. Moore. 



Colonel Legge, however, in speaking of " Scott's Track," 

 used the name recently adopted by the Lands Office, and it 

 would be most unlikely that he should have any cause to 

 imagine that the gentleman whoso name it bears had no 

 claim to such credit as might be attached to developing the 

 first overland route from the southern side of the island to 

 Mount Heemskirk. 



It was owing to the untimely death of Mr. Scott, shortly 

 after his return from this trip, that Mr. Moore neither ob- 

 tained, nor has ever sought to obtain, what may seem a 

 trivial jirivilege, hut which is, nevertheless, one of an esti- 

 mable value in au explorer's eyes — that of having his route 

 charted in his own nanus and of suggesting to the Govern- 

 ment the adoption of such designations as he might select, 

 by right of discovery, for mountains, lakes, or rivers, which 

 were previously uudescribed or unknown. It is not my 

 object, therefore, in calling attention to this error, to seek to 

 have it rectified, but merely to place on record in the pro- 

 ceedings of the Society sucli a condensed clu-onological state- 

 ment of the movements of the two gentlemen referred to, and 



