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Eddystone rocks and endeavoured to anchor in Adventure 

 Bay, but that neither of the ships was able to beat into it 

 owing to contrary winds. Hayes sailed on and eventually 

 entered the Derwent. ( 31a ) He was unaware that the 

 French, under D'Entrecastcaux, had recently explored this 

 locality, and he re-named a number of places to which 

 the French had already afforded designations. One so 

 treated was the Isle Willaumcz, which Hayes named Betsey 

 Island. ( 32 ) Hayes' ships ascended the Derwent as far a-; 

 Mt. Direction, ( 31b ) and his boats still further. Traces of 

 his visit are retained by such names as Risdon l33 ) and 

 Ralph's Bay. < 34 > 



The English ships sailed down the Channel and l 

 turned to th Derwent. Many places on the western shore 

 were named, and a (hart of the Channel and Bruny 

 Island drawn up. Hayes' charts l35 > show that what we 

 now know as Bruny Island he called "Rt. Honourablo 

 "William Pitt's Island.'' The mo-t northern point (the 

 correct Cape do la Sorti of the French) < 36 > was named 

 Point Hodgson, the present Barnes Bay, Port McCluer, 

 < 37 ) while the B.W. point of the northern half of the 

 island was named Point Capon. Green Island (the He 

 Verto of the French) was designated Pelican Island, and 

 Isthmus Bay, Henry Halls Harbour. ,38 ) Satellite Is- 

 land was called Sutherland's Island. Hayes missed La 

 Petite Anse of the French, but to La Grande Anse (now 

 Great Taylor's Bay) he gave the name Bay Taylor's Bay, 

 ( 39 ) and to Partridge Island (LTle aux Perdrix), Thistle- 

 ton's Island. l4 °) The small islands or cluster of rocks 

 off the South West Coast of Bruny Island he called Court's 

 Js'ands, ( 41 ) and the point opposite Partridge Is'and, l'< mt 

 Collins. The Acteon Islands (the lies Steriles of the 

 French) became Fawcett Isles. 



(31a and b) So called by Hayes. 



(8*21 After the ship Betsey (Lee). Like many other place names, the 

 designation of Betsey Is. md his. been the subject o.' romantic 

 The island is often called Franklin island at the present time, owing to 

 the fact that Lady Franklin purchased it 'I ho island is now the pro- 

 perty of the Trustee.- of the Tasmanian lluaeam and Botanical Gardens. 



(33) Risdon— so called by Hayee, after Win. Bellamy Bisdon, 2nd 

 officer nf the / ni.e of Clarence. I Lee.) 



(34) Called Belph's By by Hjyes, a'tcr Wm Eelph. Commander of 

 Hie Ditches*. The French had t'iven the appropriate title of Double 



Bay to this locality. 



(35) There are several copies, but in this instance we will deal 

 witli the copy of the MS chaii in the Admiralty collection. See 



U I ee'a work, "Commodore Sir John Hayes " 



(36) On some charts the po-.ition of C. de la Sorti (C. Fare^e") is 

 eho.vn too far to the ;-outh oast. 



(37) After John MoClure, a Bombay marin^ officer. 

 (33) Henry Wallis on later copies. 



(30) After Captain Taylor, Bombay marines. 



(40) After his old chief, the captain of the Drake. 



(41) Thomas Court was 1st officer of the Duke of Clarence. 



