

THE " LAUV NELSON " ENTERING PORT PHILLIP. 



HISTORICAL REVIEW OF VICTORIA. 



THE DISCOVERY OF PORT PHILLIP. 



far as we have any authentic information to guide us we are bound to conclude 

 that the coast-line of what is now the colony of Victoria was first sighted by 

 Captain Cook, as he was beating up from New Zealand towards the mysterious Continent 

 spoken of by earlier navigators as the Great Terra Australis. It was on the morning 

 of Thursday, the igth of April, 17/0, that his first-lieutenant made out a promontory 

 supposed to be that now known as Cape Everard, but which then received the name 

 of Point Hicks, in honour of the discoverer. Gabo Island and Cape Howe were noted 

 on the evening of the same day. Twenty-seven years elapsed before anything more was 

 seen or heard of the southern trend of the huge island which was believed to run 



