50 THE EARLY HISTORY OF MARIA ISLAND, 



tory. I have been privileged to recall a few of these in the 

 foregoing pages, but there are doubtless many more even 

 more interesting ones which I am not aware of but which 

 will I hope be placed on record by those in possession of 

 them before the records relating to them are forgotten. 

 Sufficient has been written, I think, in order to show what 

 interesting periods of history this island has seen. 



NOTES ON THE NOMENCLATURE. 



Cape Boullanger. This was named after a. member 

 of Baudin's expedition, as shown by the following passage : 



"En effet a peine on a double le cap Nord, qui, du 

 "nom de notre ingenieur, ete appele Cap Boullanger. 

 "... En evant du cap Boullanger, se presente 

 "un gro'jse roche, qui se rattache a I'ile Maria par une 

 "trainee de recifs dangereux; cette roche est precede 

 ;'d'un gros ilot granitique, peu eleve, sterile, et qui 

 "laisse entre la. terre et lui un passage practicable 

 "seulement po-ur le petites embarcations. Nous 

 "I'appelames Hot du Nord:' 



On Baiidin's Charts (Carte d'une parte de la Cote 

 orientale de la Terr© de Diemen dresse par L. Freycinet 

 d'apres ses observations et celles de MM. Faxire et Boul- 

 langer. Fevrier 1802). Cap Boullanger is unmistakably 

 sho'wn as the northern point of Maria Island, thus bearing 

 out the description in the text. On Flinders' Chart (South 

 Coast, sheet 6), "C. Boullanger or Coxcomb Head" a,TDipears 

 east of its true location. The present maps issued by the 

 Lands Department show Cape Boullanger as the point 

 near the Bishop and Clerk. This is by no means its cor- 

 rect position, and it should be transferred back to its orig- 

 inal plac& — the extreme north point of Maria Island, op- 

 posite the I. du Nord (3'''). Thei point where it appears on 

 the present day maps is generally known as "The Bishop 

 and Clerk" after the prominent mountain of that na.m-e 

 which projects boldly seawards at this point. This is the 

 "cock"s-comb-like" head referred to by Flinders. 



By some strange alteration "Coxcomb's Head," which 

 appears upon Flinders' Charts of 1798-9 (published 1814) 

 as a isynonym of Cape Boullanger, now appears on the 

 Lands Department's Charts as a synonym of Cape Mis- 

 taken. But even this latter Cape has been misplaced, as 

 I shall show later. 



Cape Mistaken. So named by Captain John Henry 

 Co'X of the Brig Mercury in 1789. The name on modera 



(37) The i. du Nord is variously called locally "North Id.," 

 "Green Id.," "Rabbit Id.," or "Goat Id." 



