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3- Memorials of Banks. 
A. — Names of places. 
1. “ The new-fouiid country ought to be named Banksia, from its 
discoverer, as America was from Americus.” (Linnseus to Ellis, 20th 
December, 1771.) 
2. Cape Banks (Botany Bay). 
The name was given by Cook to the north head of Botany Bay, 
Point Solander being the name given by him to the south head. (See 
p. 225.) 
3. Cape Banks, or West Cape Banks (South Australia). 
Lieut. James Grant wrote to Banks, 31st .January, 1800,* * * § from the 
“ Lady Nelson ” in Ramsgate Harbour, to the command of which he 
had been appointed by the influence of Banks. He pays Banks several 
compliments, and, after giving an account of the merits of his vessel, 
concluded with requesting “ leave to place your name at the head of 
my list, should I be so fortunate as to discover an island, bay or harbour, 
which is worthy to boast of such a title.” 
He received instructions to sail through Bass Straits (1800). In 
pursuance of these instructions he “ came in sight of the south coast 
of Australia, near where the South Australian and Victorian boundary 
is now situated. He named the two points first sighted Capes Banks 
and Northumberland, and two mountains behind them ]\Iount Gambier 
and Mount Schanck— names which they still bear.”| 
Cape Banks is shown in the “ rough eye copy ” of the “ Lady 
Nelson’s ” (and two other vessels’) track, enclosed in the letter from 
Governor King to Banks, dated 10th March, 1801. J PTinders named 
it West Cape Banks in the following passage . — 
“ The addition of West is made to the name (Cape Banks) to dis- 
tinguish 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.”§ 
• Hist. Rec., iv. 21. 
t Ib., iv, 68 (note). “ The first cape I called Northumberland after His Grace the Duke of 
Northumberland, and another smaller but very conspicuous jut of the land which we plainly 
saw when abreast of Cape Northumberland, I called Cape Banks.” (Sei p. 227.) 
t Ib.. iv. 311. 
§ " Flinders' Voyage,” i, 201 (footnote). 
