Investigator the Discoverer of the Country now called South Australia was set apart on 12.Jan.

1841 with the sanction of LT.COL.GAWLER.

K.H.
then Governor of the Colony and in the first year of the government of CAPT.

G.GREY adorned with this Monument to the perpetual Memory of the illustrious Navigator his honored Commander by JOHN FRANKLIN.CAPT.

R.N.
K.C.H.