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possesses Burney's Chronological History of the Voyages and 

 Discoveries in the South Sea. 4 pts in 2 vols. 4° Lond. 1803- 

 16, tlie third part of which contains a brief abridgement of 

 Tasman's Journal, taten from a translation of an old but 

 defective MS. which, at the time of publication, was in the 

 possession of Sir Josej)h Banks. 



The visits of Furneaux and Cook are recorded in CooFs 

 Voyages, which are in one or two Tasmanian libraries, but the 

 above-mentioned works of Crozet, Bligh and Mortimer are 

 still awanting. 



The only work regarding the important discoveries of 

 Dentrecasteaux and his assistants which is available to 

 inquirers is that of Labillardiere ; a translation is in the 

 Eoyal Society's library. This is a personal narrative of the 

 voyage varied with a few botanical and zoological descriptions, 

 but omitting the reports of the various exploring and survey- 

 ing parties which were despatched from the ships. These 

 are supplied by De Eossel along with the resulting charts 

 in the above-cited volumes which are not obtainable here. 



There are several copies of Flinders' Teira Australis in 

 Hobart libraries, but they are defective as regards the atlas 

 published to illustrate the text. The volumes of Peron and 

 Freycinet are still desiderata in any library available to the 

 public. 



The draughtsman who accompanied Tasman's expedition 

 has left us sketch-maps of Stoorm Bay, Frederih Hendriks 

 Bay and Anthony Van Biemeyis Landt and several coast- 

 views. The sketch-maiDS are reproduced in Burney's abridge- 

 ment,* but not the coast-views, and as they possess great his- 

 torical interest as the oldest views of Tasmania, it is most 

 desirable that copies of them should be procured fcr the 

 colony. They are to be found in Yalentyn's (Fran9ois) Oud 

 en nieuw Oost-hidien. 5 tom. fol. Dordrecht. 1724-26,t repub- 

 lished at the same place in 1824-26, a work which contains a 

 fund of information regarding early Asiatic and Polynesian 

 discoveries. The next map with which I am acquainted, 

 that contains an outline of the Tasmanian coast, is one 

 executed in 1644 by command of Van Diemen. It delineates 

 as much as was then known to the Dutch of Australia 

 including New Guinea (Compagnis Niev Nederlandt and Nona 

 Guina), New Zealand (Staetelandt), Tasmania {Anthonio Van- 

 diemenslandt), and the islands of the South Pacific, and shows 

 the course of Tasman in the voyages of 1642 and 1644. 

 There is a copy of this map in the edition of the journal by 

 Swaart. The third map known to me, which introduces Van 



* iii. pp. 67 and 70. 

 t iii. p. 48. 

 § i. p. 50. 



