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I cannot find out anything from D'Entrecasteaux's "Voyage," regarding the southern islands of the group, so have left them uncoloured. MALAYTA Island in a rough MS. chart in the Admiralty has its northern shore fringed. CHOISEUL Island. In Bougainville's "Chart of Choiseul Bay," parts of the shores are fringed by coral-reefs. BOUGAINVILLE Island.
"This has been particularly the case on some of the larger rivers of Tasmania, but on the salt lagoons and inlets of D'Entrecasteaux's channel, the little-frequented bays of the southern and western shores of that island and the entrance to Melbourne Harbour at Port Phillip, it is still numerous."
They had not been gone more than a few hours when a general report was circulated that it had been the conversation of the French officers that Mons'r Baudin had orders to fix on a place for a settlement at Van Diemen's Land, and that the French, on receiving his accounts, were to make an establishment at 'Baie du Nord, which, you will observe, in D'Entrecasteaux's charts is what we call 'Storm Bay Passage, and the French 'Canal D'Entrecasteaux. It seemed one of the French officers had given Colonel Paterson a chart, and described the intended spot."
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