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INTRODUCTION. 
[Prior Discoveries. 
D'Entks- observed by Dampier, of the inhabitants on the north-west coast of 
CA i793y X ' Terra Australis ; and this coincidence, together with their similarity 
of person, particularly in the woolly hair, is sufficiently remarkable 
to induce a belief, that these people, placed at the two extremities 
of this vast country, have yet one common origin; although the 
intermediate inhabitants of the East Coast differ in some essential 
particulars. 
Hayes. Captain John Hayes, of the Bombay marine, 4 visited Storm Bay 
and D'Entrecasteaux's Channel, with the private ships Duke and 
Dutchess from India, in 1794. He went much further up the Riviere 
du Nord, than the boat from the French ships had done, and gave 
it the name of the Derwent River. This name is likely to efface 
the first appellation, and with some degree of propriety ; both from 
the superior extent of captain Hayes' examination, and from North 
River being an equivocal term for a stream at the south end of Van 
Diem en's Land. 
That captain Hayes had some intimation of the French discovery 
is evident, but not knowing the distinctive appellations given, he 
took upon himself to impose names every where. Succeeding 
visitors have gone with his sketch in their hands, whilst the charts of 
D'Entrecasteaux were unknown in that part of the world; from 
whence, and still more from those names having now become familiar 
to the settlement established in the Derwent River, it will be difficult, 
if not impossible in many cases, for the original discoverer to be rein- 
stated in his rights. 
The head of the Derwent is the sole part where captain Hayes' 
sketch conveys information, not to be found much more accurately 
delineated in the charts of D'Entrecasteaux. 
