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obtained not being satisfactory. I wished, more- 

 over, to comply with Sir John Franklin's desire, 

 that we should set up a monument, dedicated to 

 the memory of poor Flinders, which he had sent to 

 Port Lincoln, the centre of his honoured com- 

 mander's most important discoveries on the south 

 coast of Australia.* The performance of such a task 

 would have constituted an appropriate conclusion to 

 our labours on the shores of this great continent ; 

 and certainly nothing could have been more agree- 

 able to our feelings than to be instrumental in paying 

 a tribute of respect to our distinguished predecessor 

 in the career of discovery. I shall always regret 

 that we were prevented from doing so. At the same 

 time I must say, that it will reflect great discredit 

 on the colony of South Australia, if some portion of 

 its wealth be not devoted to the erection of a suit- 

 able monument to the memory of Flinders in one of 

 the squares of Adelaide. 



Strong northerly winds prevented us, as I have 

 above hinted, from closing with the land, we con- 

 sequently continued our course to the westward; 

 and on the twenty-third day arrived at King 

 George's Sound, whence, after completing our wood- 

 ing and watering, we sailed on the morning of the 

 21st of April. At noon we passed between Bald 

 Head and Vancouver Reef.t 



* Sir John Frankliawas a midshipman with Captain Flinders 

 when he discovered this part of Australia, 

 t See plate facing p. 225. 



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