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followed the coast from thence, through Bass' Strait.* The same isoa. 
principle upon which I had adopted the names applied by the French Saturday'17. 
navigators to the parts discovered by them, will now guide me in 
making use of the appellations bestowed by captain Grant. 
The termination to the west, of that part of the South Coast 
discovered by captain Baudin in Le Geographic, has been pointed out; 
and it seems proper to specify its commencement to the east, that the 
extent of his Terre Napoleon may be properly defined. The begin- 
ning of the land which, of all Europeans was first seen by him, so 
far as is known, cannot be placed further to the south-east than Cape 
Button ; for the land is laid down to the northward of it in captain 
Grant's chart, though indistinctly. The Terre Napoleon is therefore 
comprised between the latitudes 37 0 36' and 35° 40' south, and the 
longitudes 14,0° io' and 138 0 58' east of Greenwich; making with 
the windings, about fifty leagues of coast, in which, as captain 
Baudin truly observed, there is neither river, inlet, nor place of 
shelter ; nor does even the worst parts of Nuyts' Land exceed it in 
sterility. 
At noon of the 1 7th we were in 
Latitude observed, - - 37 0 47I-' 
Longitude by time keepers, - - - 140 16- 
Cape Buffon bore - - - - - N. 26 W. 
Reef of rocks, ( nearest part dist. 9,- miles ) N. 51 0 to S. 42 E. 
Hills behind the coast, - - - N. 38 to N. 79 E. 
Sandy hummock on Westf Cape Banks S. 44 E. 
* See A Voyage in the Lady Nelson to New South Wales, by James Grant. London, 
1803. This voyage was published four years previously to M. Perons book ; but no 
more attention was paid at Paris to captain Grant's rights than to mine ; his discoveries, 
though known to M. Peron and the French expedition in 1802, being equally claimed 
and named by them. 
f The addition of West is made to the name, to distinguish it from Cape Banks on the 
East Coast, named by captain Cook. It is to be regretted, that navigators often apply 
names in so careless a manner as to introduce confusion into geography. 
