108 THE VICTORIAN NATURALIST. 



Wilson's Promontory is of granite, with immense boulders 

 generally visible, but more particularly on the part known as 

 Boulder Range." — Australia: Sailing Directions. 1879. Vol. 

 i., p. 523. Published by the Admiralty. 



Remarkable Stone. — " Half a mile from South-west Point a 

 fresh water creek discharges itself, and at a short distance inland, 

 and eastward of this, is a remarkable stone near the summit of the 

 coast range, which closely resembles a tower." — Victorian 

 Government Gazette, 25th February, 1870, p. 364. 



Clonmel Island and Lewis Channel. — " Captain Lewis 

 discovered a noble inland lake, capacious enough to ride a fleet 

 of shipping secure from every storm, with a navigable passage 

 from Corner Inlet, and also from Shallow Inlet, the place where 

 the Clonmel lies wrecked." — The Colonial Gazette, London, 9th 

 June, 1 84 1, p. 356, from the Port Phillip Herald. 



" Clonmel Island forms east side of the entrance to Port 

 Albert." — Australia : Sailing Directions, vol. i., p. 530. 



" In the month of January, 1841, an accident occurred to a 

 passenger steamer named the Clonmel, in her voyage from Sydney 

 to Melbourne. . . . This ship left Sydney on Wednesday, 

 the 30th December, 1840, and on the 2nd January following 

 struck on the beach near Corner Inlet. ... A boat left the 

 vessel with the intention of proceeding to Melbourne, and was 

 fortunately perceived by Captain Lewis, harbour master, who was 

 returning from the wreck of the Isabella in the cutter Sisters." — 

 History 0/ the Colony of Victoria, by the Hon. Thomas 

 M'Combie, p. 77. Melbourne, 1858. 



Snake Island. — "The crew and passengers of this vessel (the 

 Clonmel) .... (January, 1841) succeeded in reaching in 

 their boats a low woody tract of land, which they at the time 

 imagined formed one of the heads of Corner Inlet. . . . 

 After some time they discovered they had landed on an island, 

 since called Snake Island. — Five Years' Experience in Australia 

 Felix, by G. H. Haydon. London, 1846. 



Sunday Island. — "The adventurers in the cutter proceeded 

 up the bay, and discovered an island covered with scrub, and 

 with a poor soil, which they named Sunday Island, and still 

 keeping a northerly course in water of three and four fathoms, 

 reached a spot now occupied by the little town of New Leith, 

 also known as the Stockyard. Sailing from this spot they 

 discovered the Tarra rivulet, on the banks of which stream a 

 special survey of 5,120 acres was taken by a Mr. Reeves, who 

 laid out a town, which is now in a flourishing state." — Five Years' 

 Experience in Australia Felix, by G. H. Haydon, p. 38. 

 London, 1846. 



