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but nothing is known of the date of such visit. During a hearing of land 
claims one David Scott, a flax-buyer, stated that he came there in 1831, - 
and lived in a hut about Lambton Quay. George Young, a whaler, claimed 
to have lived at Thorndon in 1834-35. When Colonel Wakefield arrived 
in 1839 the European population of this district numbered one—a man 
named Robinson, who was living with the Maori at the Hutt. 
So far as we have any reliable account, the first vessel to enter Port 
Nicholson was the “ Rosanna” (Captain Herd), in the year 1826. Thi 
vessel brought out from England about sixty would-be settlers. They 
seem to have been in search of a location where they could procure flax 
and spars. The “ Rosanna" visited Stewart Island, and then came up 
the east coast of the South Island and entered Queen Charlotte Sound, 
after which she came to Port Nicholson. Evidently these places did not 
While lying in this harbour Captain Herd named it Port Nicholson, after 
Company and others. It came into the possession of the late Mr. А.Н. _ 
Turnbull, of Wellington, and is in the Alexander Turnbull Library. А copy _ 
is reproduced in the 1909 edition of Murihiku. Ж 
‚ Another excellent chart of the harbour was made by T. Barnett in 1826: 
this was published, with other maps pertaining to D'Urville's voyages, Ш 
1847, seven years after Captain Chaffers made his chart of the harbour that — 
was published in 1840, This must have been Captain Barnett, of the cutter — 
“Lambton,” a craft that accompanied the “ Rosanna," though in what —— 
capacity I do not know. There are differences in these charts that seem — | 
to denote different surveys; though, if the two vessels were here together, — 
why should two tedious surveys of the harbour have been made? It is 0) 
possible, of course, that the two vessels had separated, and that both icc 
entered the harbour at different times. On the Barnett chart Mi ed rus 
Lagoon is marked “ Fresh water," and Somes Island “ Isle of the North, 
both in French. The eastern headland of Lyall Bay is marked “ Point 
Hippah ” ; so that evidently it was occupied by a native village at lee 
time. The quaint word “ hippah” was one of Captain Cook's corruptions; — 
longitude is given on this Barnett chart. Apparently D'Urville, who passe : | 
through Cook Strait in 1827, seven or eight months after the Barnett chart 
longitude, &c. Among the papers left by the late Dr. McNab is a p 
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obdt. servt., T. Barnett —Sydney, March 12th, 1827." Miramar Lagoon - 
is marked “ Fresh-water lake," and the word “ Hippah " appears as 0n es 
D'Urville copy. “ Fresh water" is marked at Nga Uranga and Kilbirm® | 
as on Herd's chart. Owing to differences in soundings, &c., be гт 
р тн, = mas oe that they were separate un " 
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