LA PEIIOUSKS CQLVHfff 



tVoni /ioiiie, or one born in the colony, no matter 

 of what chiss of society, from this circiiiiistaiK'L'. 



On a spot near tJio entrance to Botany Bay, 

 (so named by Sir Joseph Banks, and ** Sting 

 K^y S&^*" iroitt ih^ mumfeer of that Ml cajitured 

 thBr^ by Captain Conk,") a neat cohimn has 

 been erected by Mr. Jnshiia Thorp, (at that time 

 the government ai'chitect,) from a design by Mr. 

 Cookney, to the memory of La Perouse ; the 

 expeitsfe of ft8 tr^m Mng^ paid by a siiibsen]^^ 

 tlon from tlio ofhcei's of tlic Fi'ench discovery 

 ships, which visited tlie eokiny in 18*24 ; the co- 

 lonial government snpplying convict labourers. 

 It is situated on a little elevation not far from 

 liha pldioe atwhieh Captain C^o^ hatd^. The 

 column is eireulai^, standi ml: on a pedestal^ and 

 suirmdnnted by a spliere. Its ch'vation may he 

 about fifteen feet. This was the last place whence 

 intellioence way received from the indefatitrablc 

 but nnfoiii^ie navigatdr. Th^ iia^tip^^m m 

 the pedestal &m in Englidi sknd French, nnd as 

 follow: — "This place, visited by Mons. de la 

 Perouse in 1788, is the last wlunice aiiv aec(tiints 

 of him were received. Erected in the name of 

 France by M+M. de Bougainville and Ducampier, 

 i^mmtoflingdte&igate LaThetlsand th« corvette 

 L'Esperance, lying in Pcn-t Jackson. An. lS*2.'i." 

 Abfiul imv liiuidreil yards {listaiil, inhnnl from 

 llu6 column, near a red gum tree, arc interred 



