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North Bay, and the name of Frederick Henry Bay is 

 restored to its proper place, on the east coast ; though 

 Flinders applies it to the outer port and not to the inner 

 which bears the name on Tasman's ma]). 



The original error of Furneaux, perpetuated as it was 

 by the high authority of Cook and of Flinders' first chart, 

 had obtained too firm a hold to be displaced. On all the 

 early English charts the Baie du Nord was laid down as 

 Frederick Henry Bay, and by this name it is alluded to 

 in all the early records; in Collins' despatches;* in 

 Knopwood's diary; t as such it continued to be known 

 to the early settlers, and so it is universally known to 

 the present day. 



After the publication of Flinders' atlas some of the 

 early map-makers endeavoured to restore the names to 

 their proper localities. Thus in a chart of Van Diemen's 

 Land compiled by G. W. Evans, Surveyor-General, 

 and published in London in 1821, and also in a chart 

 published in London by Cross in 1826, North Bay is 

 correctly placed, and the name Frederick Henry is in 

 the first map applied to the outer bay, and in the second 

 more correctly to the inner one. In Assistant Surveyor- 

 General Scott's map published in Hobart by Ross in 

 1830, the name Frederick Henry appears in North Bay, 

 but in Arrowsmith's map published in London in 1842, 

 the alternative names are given, viz. : — Frederick Henry 

 Bay or North Bay ; while the name Frederick Henry 

 also appears correctly in the inner bay to which it was 

 originally applied by Tasman. In all modern maps, 

 however, D'Entrecasteaux' name of North Bay has been 

 most inappropriately transferred to what I have described 

 as the Two Mile Beach, on the east coast of Forestier's 

 Peninsula. 



The Fredrik Hendrik Bay of Tasman i* now known 

 as Blackman's Bay. On early maps the name of Black- 

 man's Bay is applied sometimes to the Two Mile Beach, 

 and sometimes to Wilmot Harbour. By what freak of 

 th.e map-makers of our Survey Department these names 

 have been shuffled about so oddly I am quite at a loss to 

 imagine. 



The names as they stand are perhaps now too firmly 

 established to be changed at once. But I would venture 

 to offer to the Lands Office two suggestions :— 



(1) As there is already a Cape Frederick Henry on 

 the east coast of Forestier's Peninsula, which rightly 

 marks Tasman's anchorage, a more appropriate name 



* King to Collins, January 8, 1805 : CoUta 10 King?, Jane 24, 1805 

 f Knopwood's diary, February 12, 1804, 



