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The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders

CHAPTER 30
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TABLET AT ENCOUNTER BAY, SOUTH AUSTRALIA, COMMEMORATING THE MEETING OF FLINDERS AND BAUDIN.
IN COMMEMORATION OF THE MEETING NEAR THIS BLUFF BETWEEN H.M.S.

'INVESTIGATOR'-- MATTHEW FLINDERS WHO EXPLORED THE COAST OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA AND M.F.

'LE GEOGRAPHE'-- NICOLAS BAUDIN, APRIL 8, 1802.
ON BOARD THE 'INVESTIGATOR' WAS JOHN FRANKLIN THE ARCTIC DISCOVERER: THESE ENGLISH AND FRENCH EXPLORERS HELD FRIENDLY CONFERENCE.

AND FLINDERS NAMED THE PLACE OF MEETING 'ENCOUNTER BAY.' UNVEILED BY HIS EXCELLENCY LORD TENNYSON.
APRIL 8, 1902.
19.

VIEW OF THE WESTERN ARM OF PORT PHILLIP, BY WESTALL.
From the copy (in the Mitchell Library) of Westall's original drawing in the Royal Colonial Institute, London.
22 Port Phillip.
Distant view of the West arm of the Western Port.
Looking to south-west.
April 30th 1802.
The view appears to be one of Indented Head.


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