350 PROCEEDINGS OF SECTION E. 



From what has gone before, it will appear that on the present 

 charts the French names have been adopted for Venus Bay and 

 French Island, previously discovered by the British. French 

 names have been affixed and published prior to the English ones in 

 the following cases: — 



Cap Volney, Moonlight Head. 



Cap Folard, Ronald Point. 



Piton de Reconnaissance, Tower Hill. 



Cap Reaumur, Boulder Point. 



How far it may be desirable at the present time to replace any 

 of the present English names by the French ones given in con- 

 nexion with the Baudin expedition may be open to discussion, but 

 the list above given cannot properly be exceeded. 



The talented Flinders was the next to navigate the Victorian 

 coast-line, and in doing so fixed, with his usual care and accuracy, 

 its position, but he added few names to the chart. He indicates 

 Tower Hill as a " peaked hill," position uncertain; Buttress Point 

 as a " bold projection" ; Moonlight Head as a head seen at 8 p.m. 

 in moonlight; whilst his Cape Patton is the Danger Point of 

 Grant and the Storm Point of the present charts. His chart shows 

 the names Point Grant, Sandy Point, and Cape Woolamai at 

 Western Port. The former two are due either to Grant or 

 Barallier, whilst the latter may. on Flinders' statement, be taken 

 as by Bass, who described it as a high cape, like a schnapper's 

 head, forming an island. 



With the work of Flinders, the discovery of our Victorian coast 

 may be considered as completed, and its detailed survey com- 

 menced. In the appendix is given a table setting out the various 

 points shown in his charts, together with their latitudes and longi- 

 tubes from this and also from the present chart, from which the 

 character of his work may be judged. Where Grant also shows 

 these points, their latitudes and longitudes as from his chart are 

 also given. 



For the data set out in this paper, the writer has referred, as 

 far as possible, to original documents and charts, or their repro- 

 ductions. Amongst the sources of information utilized, reference 

 may be made to Flinders' volumes and charts, Grant's book, and 

 the Historical Records of New South Wales, whilst Dr. Watkin's 

 interesting paper in the ProceecUnys of the Boyal Geographical 

 Society of Australasia (Victoria Branch), must also be mentioned. 



