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being discovered near it, the ships were re- 
moved thither on the 2d of October, and parties 
landed to commence immediate operations with 
the axe and saw. The projection of land fixed 
upon for the site of a town, was named after the 
commandant (Captain Barlow). The cove, in 
which the ships were at anchor, was named King’s 
Cove by Captain Bremer, after yourself, as the 
original discoverer of the strait; and that part 
of Apsley Strait, between Luxmoore Head and 
Harris’ Island^, received the name of Port 
Cockburn, in honour of Vice Admiral Sir George 
Cockburn, G.C.B., one of the Lords of the Ad- 
miralty. 
‘‘ All disposable hands being employed on 
shore in clearing Point Barlow of wood and other 
impediments, we were speedily enabled to com- 
mence the erection of a fort, seventy-five yards 
in length by fifty wide ; to be built of the trunks 
of the felled trees, and. to be surrounded by a 
ditch ten feet wide and deep. On the memorable 
21st of October, our quarter-deck guns were 
landed and mounted, the colours were hoisted 
Harris Island was named by me after my friend John Harris, 
Esq., formerly surg'eon of the 102d Reg’iment, who has served so 
long and so faithfully in various offices under the government of 
•New South Wales. 
