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report to which I have alluded, even if the alleged 

 discovery had not taken place on a portion of the 

 coast unvisited by Captain King or myself. In the 

 colony, however, very different opinions were held ; 

 and it was confidently maintained that Port Grey, 

 although placed, by accident or otherwise, twelve 

 miles to the southward, was no other than the bay 

 we had previously visited, called by us Champion 

 Bay. It is true I could trace a resemblance be- 

 tween their southern parts; but they differed so 

 widely in their northern — Port Grey being repre- 

 sented in the chart, and printed description, to be 

 perfectly safe, and sheltered in that quarter by a 

 point and a reef — that I saw no grounds for giving 

 credence to the opinion industriously circulated at 

 Swan River, that the reef and point, or perhaps 

 the whole port, had been fabricated by the land- 

 jobbers at home. Such an opinion, however, was 

 quite a disinterested one on their part ; as an exten- 

 sion of the colony northwards, and the establishment 

 of a settlement near Moresby's Flat-topped Range, 

 would have led to a result much desired by them, 

 the occupancy, namely, of the intervening country. It 

 was in the neighbourhood of the harbour, the 

 existence or identity of which was thus called in ques- 

 tion, that Captain Grey had reported to have seen a 

 fertile district ; and a company had actually arrived 

 from England for the purpose of forming a settle- 

 ment there. Mr. Clifton, the Chief Commissioner, 

 however, on hearing the opinion prevalent in the 



