H.M.S. "PALUMA" AND THE JANET RANGE 695 



THOMSON RANGE, in honour of the leader in science and philosophy 

 who was to be known later as Lord Kelvin. 



As regards the JANET RANGE and its eastern slopes which are 

 washed by the Pacific Ocean, the progress of marine surveying 

 can be traced with an approach to accuracy by a careful study of 

 the legend attached to Admiralty Chart, No. 2354, ^ which two 

 editions may be compared. The first of these issues or editions l 

 is that by which my party travelled in 1879-80, after I had pre- 

 pared a skeleton map on which the outline of the coast, as charted 

 from the sea, was backed by the blank interior which had to be 

 filled in by land exploration. Kennedy, it will be remembered, 

 had already marched to his death over part of this very country, 

 but his notes and charts had perished with him. 



The only coastal place-names on this edition (in the region 

 under consideration) are CAPE WEYMOUTH (Cook, 1770), RESTORA- 

 TION ISLAND (Bligh, 1789) and the PASCOE RIVER. Lieutenant 

 Pascoe, who died in Melbourne in February, 1898, and who was 

 a son of Nelson's flag-lieutenant at Trafalgar, 2 commanded H.M.S. 

 " Salamander " when she brought the marines to Somerset in 

 1863,* and the Pascoe River may therefore be assumed, on fairly 

 solid grounds, to have been named after him. 



For an explanation of the additional place-names appearing 

 on the coast-line and within the area occupied by the Janet Range, 

 we have to go to the second issue of Chart No. 2354. -^ ts t^ 6 

 is verbally identical with that of the first edition up to and including 

 the reference to the " Salamander" with an addition as in the 

 following footnote. 4 CAPE GRIFFITH was, no doubt, named by 

 Lieutenant Pirie, in honour of the late Sir Samuel Griffith, Chief 

 Justice of Australia, who was Premier of Queensland in 1886, and 

 again in 1890-3. ALBATROSS COVE must have been named by 

 the same officer after the small steamer employed under the 

 Hon. John Douglas in patrolling the Gulf and Straits pearl-shell 

 and beche de mer fisheries. (It has already been pointed out how 



1 " Chart No. 2354. Australia, North and East Coasts. Sheet 20. Cape Gren- 

 ville to Booby Island, the Barrier Reefs and Raine Island Entrance. 



" Surveyed by Captain F. Blackwood, Lieutenant C. B. Yule, Mr. F. J. Evans, 

 Master, and D. Aird, Mate, H.M.S. ' Fly,' 1843-5. 



" Inner Route and Coast Line by Captain O. Stanley, Lieutenants C. B. Yule, J. 

 Dayman, H. G. Simpson and Mr. Obree, H.M.S. 'Rattlesnake,' 1847-9. 



' Corrections and Additions by Captain Denham, H.M.S. ' Herald,' 1860 ; Captain 

 Richards, H.M.S. ' Hecate,' 1863 ; and Commander Nares, H.M.S. ' Salamander,' 1867 ; 

 and other Officers of the Royal Navy." 



Published 2oth April, 1855. Corrections, September, 1867 ; June, 1869. 



a The Naval Pioneers of Australia, by Louis Becke and Walter Jeffrey. Melbourne 

 and London, 1899. 



3 Past and Present of Thursday Island and Torres Straits, by the Hon. John Douglas, 

 C.M.G., Government Resident, Thursday Island. Brisbane, 1900. 



" Cape Grenville to Alpha Rock, from a Survey by Lieutenant and Commander 

 G. Pirie and the Officers of H.M. Surveying Ship ' Paluma,' 1890. 



" Channel South and East of Bird Island by Lieutenant and Commander T H 

 Heming and the Officers of H.M.S. ' Paluma,' 1893." 



Corrections, January, 1881 ; January, 1885 : January, 1891 : November 1802 

 January, 1895. 



