164 president's address — section d. 



March 22nd. — Landed, and on the following day " the scientific 

 gentlemen landed again to examine the natural productions of the 

 island." View 11, plate XVII., is a view of Kangaroo Island, and 

 view 12 is Cape Jervis, taken from the anchorage at Kangaroo Island. 



" A thick wood covered almost all that part of the island visible 

 from the ship." 



On March 24th left Kangaroo Island to examine the mainland 

 (from the ship) from Cape Spencer. 



March 27th. — Investigator's Strait was named. Working up 

 St. Vincent's Gulf. 



March 30th. — " Early in the morning I went in a boat, accompanied 

 by the naturalist, to examine more closely the head of the Gulf." 



Mount Lofty had been named a few days previously, and Yorke's 

 Peninsula was named March 30th. 



April 2nd. — Back to Kangaroo Island, near their former anchorage, 

 where " the naturalists went to pursue their researches." 



April 3rd and 4th. — Naturalists landed ; on the 4th ascended 

 Prospect Hill. 



April 4th. — Named Pelican Lagoon and slept ashore. 



In Flinders's work is a " View on the north side of Kangaroo 

 Island," by Westall. 



April 6th. — Steered out of Nepean Bay, and Westall depicted 

 view 11, plate XVII. (part of Kangaroo Island, with Kangaroo Head 

 in the foreground). 



April 7th. — Backstairs Passage and Cape Willoughby. 



April 8th. — Heie the French ship Le Geograpke, Captain Nicholas 

 Baudin, was encountered. 



It is interesting to note that Eobert Brown acted as Flinders's 

 interpreter. 



The meeting took place abreast of a bay, which was hence called 

 " Encounter Bay." So that, as far as South Australia is concerned, 

 Robert Brown was the first botanist from the western boundary as 

 far as Encounter Bay, while from the eastern boundary to Encounter 

 Bay the French were earlier. Leschenault de la Tour was the French 

 botanist. 



I do not wish to dwell upon the conflicting claims of the French 

 and English to the discovery of the coast already referred to ; Flinders's 

 statement (e) appears clear enough. Peron and Freycinet (/) may be 

 ,read on the other side. 



Flinders then passed along the " coast discovered by Captain 

 JNicholas Baudin, 1802." See plate V. of his atlas. 



April 12th. — Opposite Cape Bernouilli. 



April 13th. — Rivoli Bay and Cape Lannes. 



April 15th. — Cape Buffon. 



(e) Op. cit. I. p. 191. 

 (/)" Voyage de decouverte aux terres australes," redige par M. F. Peron, 

 Naturaliste de I'expedition. Vol. I., Paris, 1807. Vol. II. (edited and con- 

 tinued by Louis Freycinet), 1816. 



