4/0 PKOCEEDINGS OF SECTION E. 



one attendant. The weather was hot, water and provisions ran out, 

 Mr. Guy Bryan's horse became unable to travel, and he was never 

 seen ai^ain, although a search and aid party were quickly sent back 

 from the river. Vide Rec/lster, January 4th. 1840 ; also 2nd Col. 

 Com. Report, 1840-41. 



Brouyhton. — Named by Eyre, May, 1839, probably after Bishoi^ 

 Broughton. 



Barcoo or Cooper. — Mitchell's Victoria River, discovered and 

 named by him in December, 1.-545, was mapped by his assistant, 

 Ed. B. Kennedy, who traced it down, in 1847. to the boundary of 

 South Australia, and found that the Thompson, which gathers its 

 waters in the tropics, poured them into the Barcoo, and, gaining 

 strength through several hundred miles, became identical with the 

 Cooper of our territory, discovered and named by Sturt, October, 

 1841. The rival names — Cooper, Strzelecki, Victoria, and Kennedy, 

 applied to various parts of the stream — became a vexed question, 

 ultimately settled by the Imperial authority in a State paper. On the 

 Cooper died the explorers Wills and Burke, not far from the present 

 station Innamincka. The unfortunate Kennedy was speared to 

 death, in 1848, whilst endeavoiing to open a route between Rock- 

 ingham Bay and Cape York ; the only survivors of his ill-fated 

 expedition being the naturalist, Carron, and Mr. Goddard. 



Barossa Range. — Named by Colonel Light, 1837, probably after 

 Barossa, in Spain, where the battle of that name was won by his 

 friend Lord Lynedoch, in 1811. The second Colonisation Commis- 

 sioners' report refers to a tribe of natives 1 00 strong at Barossa 

 Range, in 1840. 



Blanche Toivn. — Named after Lady Blanche MacDonnell. 



Burra Burra. — Mine discovered October, 1845,onBurra Creek; 

 named by coolies in the employ of Mr. James Stein ; Hindoostanee 

 for " great, great." Native name, Kooringa. 



Borda, Cape. — Named by Baudin, 1802, after C. J. Borda, 

 distinguished for his proficiency in navigation, mathematics, and 

 physical science. His death, in 1799, was probably then unknown 

 to Baudin. 



Bremer, River. — This river was discovered at the same time as 

 the Angas by Messrs. Robert Cock, W. Finlayson, A. Wyatt. and 

 G. Barton, during an excursion to Lake Alexandrina, by way of 

 Mount Barker ; they named it the Hindmarsh, December, 1837, but 

 as Messrs. T. B. Strangways and Y. B. Hutchinson proceeding simul- 

 taneously to Encounter Bay, keeping near the coast, discovered 

 another river, which they also named the Hindmarsh, an official 

 announcement upon the subject was made a year and a half later, 

 as follows: — "Government order. No. 31, made June 26th, 1839, 

 by His Excellency Captain Hinchuarsh, K.N., and signed Geo. M. 

 Stephens, Colonial Secretary. — His Excellency having observed 

 that two rivers have been named the " Hindmarsh," one flowing into 

 Encounter Bay, the other into the Lake Alexandrina, directs that 



