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to await his orders. There is some confusion in the respective ac counts of the chaplain and the Lieutenant. The former in his diary has the following entries :— November 6. Mr. Collins with six men in a large boat to Port Jackson. November 17. The Governor's commission was read &c, “Ocean" cleared out. December 12. Return of “ Ocean," engaged for 4 months more. The “ Ocean ” and “ Lady Nelson ” which had sailed on the 28th November, was to remove us there (Van Diemen’s Land) or to any other place Governor Collins might think proper.” Tuckey tells us about the boat being picked up by the “ Ocean." He afterwards adds, “ Governor King, from a correct survey of Port Philip, made by Mr. Grimes, the Surveyor General of the Colony, was already con vinced of its unsuitability for a settlement, and immediately chartered the “ Ocean ” to remove the establishment, either to Port Dalrymple or the river Derwent.” Bent, the father of the Tasmanian Press, has this version in his own almanac for 1829 ; “ Governor Collins, soon after his arrival at Port Phillip, saw the impracticability of colonizing that place, in consequence of the great want of water, and immedi ately despatched an open boat to Sydney, with an application to Governor King, for instructions how to proceed, and stating the in capacities of Port Philip for the formation of a second Colony.” Mr. Westgarth concurs in the opinion of the truthfulness of the reason assigning for the abandonment of the coast. Certain it is that the re port of the Surveyor was also unfavorable, although, according to Mr. Arden, Mr. Grimes saw neither the Yarra nor the Salt water River. One thing is pretty certain that as the “ Calcutta ” left the Bay for Sydney on December 13th, or 18th, according to Mr. Knopwood, the colouring of the officers of that ship would still further confirm the mind of the Governor. Indeed it is stated that “ the unfavorable account given of Port Philip by the first Lieutenant of the “Calcutta," presented the necessity of removing the Colony to a more eligible situ ation.” The testimoney of the rattling mate of the “ Lady Nelson," the adventurous, Dane Jorgenson, is of no small importance, as he assisted in removing the people, and as he was hardly likely to be in fluenced or bribed by Colonel Collins, especially as his notice of the transaction was not published for thirty years after. The Danish sailor described the trip of his government craft to take Captain Bowen of the Marines, to form the settlement at Risdon, on the Der-
