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7 places falls nothing short in beauty and appearance of Greenwich Park.” His Scotch eye lighted upon a pretty hill, which he called Arthur’s Seat, from its resemblance to that Edinburgh mount. The harbour he named Port King ; but the Governor requested it might be known as Port Phillip, in honor of the memory of the founder of New South Wales colony. While the name of Nelson echoed over the seas of Europe, amidst the thunders of death dealing artillery, and the moans of fatherless ones, the name of his gentle wife was associated with the mission of peace, the discovery of happy homes for the adventurous, the sorrowful, the poor. A few weeks after this discovery, on March 30th, the entrance was passed unnoticed by Captain Nicholas Baudin in the “ Geographe, ” a French discovery ship. That navigator had called at Sydney, where, as a man of science he had received distinguished attention. Although the English and French were then engaged in bloody warfare, yet in a settlement the most removed from civilization the utmost kindness was shown to the alien voyager; for an explorer is the harbinger of progress, the friend of universal manhood. We have now to revert to Mathew Flinders, the companion of Bass. His enterprise and seamanlike zeal had been reported by the New South Wales authorities. When, therefore, the English government organized an expedition to make further discoveries in the southern seas of New Holland, the command was given to Lieutenant Flinders. Sir John Franklin served as a midshipman in this voyage. Leaving London with the “ Investigator ” in January, 1801, Flinders com menced his discoveries at the close of that year. He was the first to behold the shores of the South Australian colony. On April 8th, 1802, he fell in with Baudin's vessel coming from Bass’s strait. The French man sailed onward over the 'track of the “ Investigator," and not satisfied with re-discovering Cape Otway, which he called Richelieu, he coolly appropriated to himself the glory of first observing the western coast of Port Phillip, and the whole coast of South Australia. To Flinders’ gulfs Spencer and St. Vincent he gave the names of Bona parte and Josephine. Subsequently the two navigators met at Sydney. Flinders candidly exhibited his charts, and clearly showed the small extent of the Frenchman’s discovery, whose Terre Napoleon lay only between 139° and 140° 10'. Demanding an inspection of the charts of the “ Geographe," he was quietly informed that none were con structed on hoard ship, but that the bearings, observations, &c., had been forwarded to Paris. Afterwards, when Flinders on his homeward
