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 OF NEW SOUTH WALES. 591 nnforttmate acquaintance with in 1770 has peopled with the profligate out- Biblio- casts of our country, cruelly redeemed from the gibbet to undergo a graphy. lingering life of nakedneaa and famine in this most distant land." . Hunter : — Biographical Memoirs of Captain John Hunter, late Governor of New South Wales. With portrait. Naval Chronicle. Vol vi, pp. 349-367. London, 1801. Pinkerton: — Modem Geography. A Description of the Em- pires, Kingdoms, States, and Colonies; with the Oceans, Seas, and Isles ; in all Parts of the World : Including the most Recent Discoveries, and Political Alterations. Digest^ on a New Plan. By John Pinkerton. With Numerous Maps. 4to., 2 vols. London, 1802. The map of New Holland, at p. 467 of vol. ii, represents the southern coast from " King George III Harbour " to Western Port, as a blank. The opinions of contemporary geographers with respect to New Holland are stated as follows : — Some suppose that this extensive region, when more thoioughly investi- gated, will be found to consist of two, three, or more vast idands, inter- sected by narrow seas ; an idea which probably arises from the discovery that New Zealand consists of two islandiB, and that other new straits have been found to divide lands in this quarter, formerly supposed to be con- tinuous. Pinkerton suggested Notasia as a better name than New Holland :— While the term Australasia may be justly applied to what is called New Holland and th^ circomjaoent lands, the name of that large island itself, so a.bsurdly joined with New South Wales, misht perhaps be aptly exchanged for that of NotaMa — from the Greek word Notes, the South ; voL ii, pp. 4d3-4. His definition of the boundaries of Austra1a.sia, from the geographer's point of view, includes the following territories : — 1. Notasia, or New Holland, with any isles in the adjacent Indian Ocean twenty de>(^ees to the west, and between twenty and thirty degrees to the east, —particularly 2. Papua, or New Guinea ; 3. New Britain and New Ireland, with the Solomon Isles ; 4. New Caledonia and the New Hebrides ; 5. New Zealand ; 6. Van Diemen's Land. . The southern boundary of Australasia ^' extends to latitude 50"^ or even 60"*, where the islands of ice begin to appear " ; vol. ii, pp. 466-7. The boundaries to the north and east are also defined, but at too great length for quotation. Howe: — General Standing Orders: selected from the General Orders issued by former Governors. From the 11th of February, 1791, to the 6th of September, 1800. Also, General Orders Digitized by Google