BY CLIVE E. LOUD. 133 



Mewstone. So named by Furneaux on 9th of March, 1773. 

 "About four leagues along shore are three islands 

 "about two miles long, and several rocks resem- 

 bling the Mewstone (particularly so one which we 

 "so named) ' — "Cook's Voyages." 



Partridge Island. L'lle aux Perdrix of the French. So 

 called owing to the sailors mistaking the quail 

 seen there for partridges. Called Thistleton's 

 Island by Hayes. Ross (1836) referring to this- 

 locality '-tales that the ship Enchantress, Captain 

 Roxburgh, from London, was wrecked on a rock 

 about seven miles from the island in July, 1835, 

 and seventeen people drowned. 



Pedra Branca A large rock off the entrance to D'Eutre- 

 castcaux Channel. So named by Tasman on 29th 

 November, 1642, owiiiij to its likeness to a similar 

 rock off the coast of China. Furneaux re-named 

 this and the adja. nt rocks the Swilly Isles, but 

 this designation has lape d. 



Penguin Island. Named by Furneaux owing to a curious 

 penguin captured le re. l53 ) 



Pitt Island. Hayes named Bruny Island the Rt. Hon. 



William Pitt's Island, and in th I v< l v early days 

 of the Colony the island was oft n referred to as 

 Pitt Island. 



Roberts Point. Bent, writing in 1825, refers to th 



and salt factory at Bruny Island, of which Mr. 

 R. A. Robert- was th proprietor. Ross (1829) re- 

 fers to Mr. Roberts' Ball factory at Barnes Bay, 

 and later (1834) refers to the fact that "Con- 

 siderable exertion has been made within the last 

 "2 or 3 years by Mr. Roberts, the soap manufac- 

 turer, to open up a coal mine at a convenient 

 "place for shipping, on the bolder of the Derwent, 

 "about 30 miles below Hobart Town.'' The lo- 

 cality referred to would probably be the south end 

 of Adventure Bay. If so. Adventure Bay would 

 appear to have been the first part of South Bruny 

 to receive permanent settlers, for Ross, writing 

 in 1830, stated that South Bruny was then little 

 known. No one resided upon it, and except for 

 occasionally a few wandering natives from the 

 northern part of the island, it was quite unin- 

 habited. 



(53) See Hull. Rec A < i > t Mue.. Vol. X.'T.. No. 6 On the occur- 

 rence of the Cre 3 ted Penguin (hudyten ehryaouotnej ia Australia. 



