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coverer of the country now called South Australia, was, on the 

 r2th January, 1841,' with the sanction of Lieutenant-Colonel 

 Gawler, K.H., the Governor of the country, set apart for and, the 

 first year of the government of Captain Grey, adorned with this 

 monument to the perpetual memory of the illustrious navigator by 

 John Franklin, captain R.N., Lieutenant-Governor of Tasmania." 

 Colonel Light Avas blamed by some men of his day, less competent 

 judges, for not placing the capital in this locality. Here Governor 

 Hindmarsh put in (December, 1836) on his way to Holdfast Bay. 

 Here, during 1840, four French whaling vessels put in: and in 

 1841 the Adelaide Fishing Company established a lucrative busi- 

 ness. A Uiyvn wa'' surveyed on a suitable and elaborate design in 

 1840, the associations of the town of Lincoln being retained in 

 local names. The aborigines of this locality have received more 

 attention than those in any other part of South Australia, through 

 the instrumentality in early days of the Revs. Schijrmann, Meyer, 

 and C. Wilhelmi, and later by the establishment of the Poonindie 

 Mission Station a few miles north of the port, under Archdeacon 

 M. B. Hale, afterwards Bishop of Perth. 



Lowli/ PomL— Named by Flinders. March 9th, 1802. 



Lofty, Mount.— y^amed'hy Flinders, March 23rd, 1 802, upon 

 viewing it from Kangaroo Head. Kangaroo Island. Captain 

 Collet Barker, of the 39th Regiment, was the first European who 

 traversed the plains between the seacoast and this notable feature 

 of our landscape. He came here from King George's Soimd, by 

 request of the Governor of New South Wales, to examine the 

 coastline with the view of ascertaining whether any navigable 

 communication existed between the River Murray and the sea. 

 Captain Barker arrived at Cape Jervis in the Isabella. April 13th, 

 1831, with Dr. Davis and Mr. Kent and a few soldiers, and 

 skirted the coast to the mouth of a creek, which he named the 

 Sturt, in honor of his friend. Captain Charles Sturt, who had 

 shortly before returned to Sydney from his long expedition down 

 the Murray. On the morning of the 17th, Captain Bhrker. accom- 

 panied bv Mr. Kent and one man, set off to walk from Holdfast 

 Bay to Mount Lofty They reached the summit in good time 

 next morning, and, having spent some time mapping the country 

 east and north-east of the range, they returned to their boat on 

 the 21st, much pleased with what they had seen. Nine days after, 

 this highly esteemed and capable officer met with a tragic fate, 

 being speared by the natives whilst crossing the Murray. April 

 30th, 1831, near its sea mouth, and was never afterwards seen. 

 His notes were taken care of by Mr. Kent, and became of great 

 value to Sturt, who by them was enabled to satisfactorily complete 

 his own chart, which had been vitiated by the supposition that a 

 hill seen by him from the Murray was Mount Lofty, although he 

 could not make its position in longitude agree with that in which 

 Flinders placed it. In making use of Barker's memoranda, Sturt 



