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later by Flinders. Baudin discovered the fifty leagues of 

 " sterile waste " between Cape Banks and Encounter Bay, 

 where he encountered Flinders. 1 And Flinders discovered 

 the coast from Fowler's Bay to Encounter Bay. These 

 facts were correctly and fully given in Flinders' maps, 

 save that he omitted to mark Murray's discovery of Port 

 Phillip. 



" Terre This is the end of our story of discovery, though one 



Napoleon. re g re |- s |- o en( j ft j n f u j| view of events so full of interest. 

 One would have liked to follow the rest of Baudin's unhappy 

 voyage, and especially to notice the long holiday spent 

 in Sydney, which gave Peron, the patriotic scientist, 

 opportunity to write the most interesting description 

 of the colony in its early days, and also to consider plans 

 by which, when due time came, the French might " destroy 

 it as soon as possible " an exploit, reported Lieutenant 

 Freycinet, which would be " very easy to accomplish 

 since the English have neglected every species of means 

 of defence." And one would have liked also had not 

 Professor Scott already done this with full equipment 

 of learning and argument to discuss the maps which 

 the French men of science constructed, when they were 

 safe in France, and when Flinders was safe in Mauritius ! 

 maps which, ignoring all discoveries by Grant, Murray 

 and Flinders, described the " unknown coast " from 

 Western Port to the limit of the old Dutch discovery 

 as " Terre Napoleon." 2 



1 " The Terre Napoleon," writes Flinders, " is therefore comprised 

 between Latitude 37 36' and 35 40' South, and the Longitudes 

 140 10', and 138 58' East of Greenwich ; making with the windings, 

 about fifty leagues of coast, in which, as Captain Baudin truly observed, 

 there is neither river, inlet, nor place of shelter ; nor does even the worst 

 part of Nuytsland exceed it in sterility " (Voyage, vol. i. p. 201). 



2 Flinders notes that Grant's Voyage in the Lady Nelson to New South 

 Wales was published in 1803, " five years previously to M. Peron 's 

 book ; but no more attention was paid at Paris to Captain Grant's 

 rights than to mine ; his discoveries, though known to M. Peron and 

 the French expedition in 1802, being equally claimed and named by 

 them " (Voyages, vol. i. p. 201). 



Professor Scott has shown that the accusation against the French 

 geographers that they used Flinders' maps is untrue. Their excellent 

 maps were generally founded on their own surveys. The only thing 



