ME MORI A Lis OF BANKS 
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“ My journey to the Carmarthen (Blue) Mountains was a very rough 
one . . . The farthest of the most remarkable hills I was upon 
I have named Mount Banks. Being the first European in visiting 
these parts, I claim the privilege of giving names to a few places which 
appear to me the most obvious.” 
Governor King writes : — 
“ After an incredible fatigue, Cayley {sic) with his party got to 
Mount Banks the twelfth day after he left Richmond Hill.”* 
In Surveyor Grimes’ map of ( ?) 1806,| Caley’s name of Mount Banks 
Xo. ")(). — Cape Hanks (named Hy Cook). The nortli head of Botany Bay. 
was respected. But when Major Mitchell prepared his map of the 
Blue Mountains in 1834, he took the wholly unjustifiable step of 
removing the name given to ■"he mountain by the original discoverer, 
and renamed it Mount King George. And Mount King George, Bliuj 
Mountains, it has remained ever since. Recently Mr. J. E. Came, 
Assistant Government Geologist, drew my attention to the matter, 
and, with the approval of the P].\ecutive Committee of this Fund, I 
asked the late Premier (Hon. J. H. Carruthers) to have an inquiry 
made. 
• Hist. Rec., V, 726. 
t lb., Vi, 410. 
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