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 long remained a prisoner at Verdun. The Calcutta was subsequently blown up in the affair of Basque Roads. On Woodriff's release he was made a C.B. In 1839 he was appointed to Greenwich Hospital, where he died in 1842.

Captain James Kingston Tuckey, the First Lieutenant of the Calcutta, an officer of merit and varied services, who wrote in a French prison and subsequently published several works connected with geography and navigation, fell a victim to African fever and anxiety in the conduct of an expedition to explore the Congo. Only a few months since Stanley accomplished what was attempted by Tuckey in 1816.

It remains to add a few particulars as to the discovery of these documents.

"The Grimes Survey and Journal" were eventually found by me last year in the archives of the Colonial Secretary's office at Sydney, after a protracted and persistent search, involving I will not say how much patience, and causing I am afraid to say how much trouble.

"The General and Garrison Order Book" of Lieutenant-Governor Collins comes from the Parliament Library of Tasmania, and was carefully copied by Mr. G. E. Collett, the sub-librarian.

"The Knopwood Diary" is in the possession of Mr. V. W. Hookey, solicitor, of Hobart Town, a family connection of one of Mr. Knopwood's executors. By Mr. Hockey's consent, a copy of it was made and presented to the Government of Victoria by Mr. J. E. Calder, formerly Surveyor-General of Tasmania, whose ardour as a collector of such matters is well and widely known, and whose name is a sufficient guarantee for the scrupulous accuracy of the transcript. All the foot-notes appended by that gentleman are marked "C."

The portrait of Collins is from a miniature, engraved for his own "Account of New South Wales." That of Captain Woodriff is taken from the painting in the possession of his family at Sydney, and for that of the Reverend Mr. Knopwood I am indebted to the Very Reverend Canon Bromby, of Hobart Town. It is copied from the original sketch by the late Hon. Thomas George Gregson, of Risdon, the first ground broken in Tasmania. In the search for these early historical records of Port Phillip, the thanks of this colony are also due to Sir John Robertson, K.C.M.G., the late Colonial Secretary, and Mr. Henry Halloran, C.B., the late principal Under-Secretary of New South Wales; as also to Mr. R. Adams, the Surveyor-General of that province. I am besides much indebted to Mr. G. D. Hirst, acting for Mrs. Woodriff, of Sydney, as well as to Mr. Alfred Kingston, of the Public Record Office in London.

Of those who took part in the attempted colonization of Port Phillip three quarters of a century ago, but three persons are now alive,