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Captain Cook’s Journal During the First Voyage Round the World

CHAPTER 8
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The great quantity of plants Mr.
Banks and Dr.Solander found in this place occasioned my giving it the Name of Botany Bay.* (* The Bay was at first called Stingray Bay.

The plan of it at the Admiralty is called by this name, and none of the logs know Botany Bay.

It seems probable that Cook finally settled on the name after the ship left, and when Banks had had time to examine his collections.

A monument was erected in 1870 near the spot, on the southern side, where Cook first landed.

Botany Bay was intended to be the site where the first settlement of convicts should be made, but on the arrival of Captain Phillip, on January 18th, 1788, he found it so unsuited for the number of his colony that he started in a boat to examine Broken Bay.


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