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River Albert, River Tarra, Mount Wellington, and 

 Mount Singapore. — " John Orr, Dr. Stewart, and Messrs. 

 Rankin, Kersop, W. A. Broadribb, Kinghorn, M'Leod, and 

 James Macfarlane in the barque Singapore to explore Gipps- 

 land. 13th February they arrived at Corner Inlet. The Albert, 

 and Tarra, and Kersop Rivers, Mount Wellington and Mount 

 Singapore named by them. 1841." — Australian Dictionary of 

 Dates and Men of the Time, by J. H. Heaton, p. 21. Sydney, 

 1879. 



River La Trobe. — " Managing after two days' hard work 

 to cross these hills, he (Count Strzelecki) came to the eighth and 

 largest river of all, which he called La Trobe, after the then 

 Superintendent of Victoria, Charles" Joseph La Trobe." — The 

 History of Discovery in Australia, Tasmania, and New Zealand, 

 by William Howitt. Vol. i., p. 328. 



Mount Fatigue. — " To commemorate my friend Count 

 Strzelecki's discovery of this important district (Gippsland), 

 which he named in honour of His Excellency the Governor, I 

 called the summit of a woody range, 2,110 feet high, over the 

 north shore of Corner Inlet, Mount Fatigue. It was in rear of 

 this range that Count Strzelecki and his companions, on their 

 way to Western Port, experienced the sufferings related in the 

 Port Phillip Herald, June, 1840." — Discoveries in Australia, by 

 Commander Stokes, R.N. Vol. ii., p. 427. 



Foster (Stockyard Creek). — " A rush now set in. Diggers 

 flocked thither from all parts of Victoria, as well as from other 

 parts of Australia, and even New Zealand, and soon the place 

 began to teem with lawless spirits. Many disputes arose, and it 

 was during the settlement of one of them, necessitating the 

 presence of the then gold warden (the late Mr. Foster, police 

 magistrate, of Sale), that the township received its present name 

 from that of himself." — The Gyclop(xdia of Victoria. Published 

 1905. Edited by James Smith. Vol. iii., p. 616. 



Cape Liptrap. — " 9th December, 1800. This (Waratah) Bay 

 runs in nearly E, I named the northernmost cape after my friend 

 John Liptrap, Esq., of London." — Lieut. Grant's Voyage 0/ 

 Discovery, p. 75. London, 1803. 



Glennie Islands, Hole-in-the-Wall. — loth December, 

 1800. — "I gave it the name of the Hole-in-the-Wall ; and to the 

 range of islands stretching along the main, Glennie's Islands, 

 after Mr. George Glennie, a particular friend of Captain Schanck, 

 to whom I was under personal obligations." — Grant's Voyage oj 

 Discovery, p. 78. Published London, 1803. 



Citadel Island (Glennie Group). — " Three smaller islands lie 

 off the south point of Glennie Island ; the southernmost has been 



