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 viii Contents. CHAPTER VIII. ATTEMPTED SETTLEMENT AT POET PHILLIP IN 1803-4. PAGE National vitality and colonization of Australia — Governor King recommends settlement at Port Phillip — Grimes and Bobbins walk ronnd harbour — Discover Yarra Yarra — Collins's expedi- tion sent out — His instructions — His despatches, on arrival, to Governor King and Lord Hobart — His unfavourable opinion of place and harbour — Landing and formation of set- tlement — Report of survey of Port Phillip — Statement of various particulars — Desertion of convicts — Boat sent to Sydney — Governor King's reply to Collins — Letter to Cap- tain Woodriff of the Calcutta-— CoWina'a reply to King stating preparations for removal — Extract from Ocean's log of voyages in removing settlement — " General Orders " printed at Port Phillip — First birth, marriage, and death — List of civil establishment and settlers ...... 124 CHAPTER IX. ATTEMPTED SETTLEMENT AT POBT PHILLIP IN 1803-4 — ADDITIONAL DOCUMENTS. Despatch of Collins to Lord Hobart — Contains most detailed account of settlement — Boat voyage to Sydney — Escape of convicts — Removal to the Derwent — Last division of Port Phillip settlement arrives there — Log of the Calcutta — Records voyage to Port Phillip — Surveys and expeditions of officers — Ship at mouth of Yarra — Log records Tuckey's ex- peditions — His own account of them— Port Phillip's fair friend 149 CHAPTER X. THE TgfiBITOBY UNDEE CONDEMNATION. Governor King wishes an establishment kept at Port Phillip — Writes to Lord Hobart on the subject — Robbins and Oxley Digit zed by GoOgk