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Towards C. Northumberland.]

followed the coast from thence, through Bass' Strait. The same principle upon which I had adopted the names applied by the French 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 Géographe, has been pointed out; and it seems proper to specify its commencement to the east, that the extent of his Terre Napoléon may be properly defined. The beginning 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 Buffon; for the land is laid down to the northward of it in captain Grant's chart, though indistinctly. The Terre Napoléon is therefore comprised between the latitudes 37° 36′ and 35° 40′ south, and the longitudes 140° 10′ and 138° 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 17th we were in