Identifier: discoveriesinaus00stok (find matches)
Title: Discoveries in Australia;
Year: 1846 (1840s)
Authors: Stokes, John Lort, 1811-1885
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: London : T. and W. Boone
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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the feelings ex-cited and the associations raised by the objects thatpresented themselves. Within the entrance of thebay, on the northern side, stands a monument* * On the eastern side is engraven—A la Memoire de Monsieurde la Perouse. Cette terre quil visita en mdcclxxxviii. est laderniere dou il a fait parvenir de ses nouvelles. y^/so—Erige au nom de la France par les soins de M. M. deBougainville et Du Campier, commandant la fregate La Thetis, et lacorvette LEsperance, en relache au port Jackson, en mdcccxxv. On the western side—This place, visited by Monsieur de laPerouse in the year mdcclxxxviii, is the last whence anyaccounts of him have been received. yl/.s-o—Erected in the name of France by M. M. de Bougain-ville and du Campier, commanding the frigate the Thetis andthe corvette the Hope, lying in Port Jackson, A.D. mdcccxxv. On the north—Le fondement pose en 1825 ; eleve en 1H28. On the south—VonuA&ixon laid in 1825, completed 1828. MONUMENT TO LA PHROUSE. 249
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erected to the memory of La Perouse, that beingthe last spot at which the distinguished navigatorwas heard of, from 17S8, until 1826, when the Che-valier Dillon was furnished with a clue to his me-lancholy fate by finding the handle of a Frenchsword fastened to another blade in the possession ofa native of Tucopia, one of the Polynesian group.Bv this means he was enabled to trace him to theisland of Mannicolo, on the reefs fronting whichhis ship was lost. Close by, on the same point, stands the tomb ofa French Catholic priest, named Le Receveur, whoaccompanied La Perouse, as naturalist, in his cir-cumnavigation of the globe, and died at this greatdistance from his native land. A large stump of atree rising near, marks out the sad spot wherelie mouldering the bones of the wanderer in searchof materials to enrich the stores of science. No 250 CAPE SOLANDER. doubt many a hope of future fame expired in thatmans breast as he sank into his last sleep in aforeign clime, far from his home and

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