1792--Admiral Bruni D'Entrecasteaux in the RECHERCHE and L'ESPERANCE; to seek La Perouse.

1792--Captains William Bligh and Portlock, in the PROVIDENCE and a.s.sISTANT; examined Torres Straits.

1793--Matthew B. Alt and William Bampton, in the ships HORMUZEER and CHESTERFIELD; through Torres Straits.

1793--Colonel Paterson rowed up the Hawkesbury, and named the Grose.

1793--Don Alexandro Malaspina, with the DESCOBIERTA and ATREVIDA, Spanish discovery ships, arrived at Sydney. Was imprisoned on his return to Calais.

1794--John Hayes, with the DUKE and d.u.c.h.eSS; visited Tasmania re-named the discoveries of D'Entrecasteaux.

1794--Quarter-master Hacking attempted to cross the Blue Mountains.

1795-96--Dr. George Ba.s.s and Matthew Flinders in the TOM THUMB.

1796--Lieutenant Bowen visited Jarvis Bay.

1796-97--Dr. George Ba.s.s; on the Blue Mountains.

1797-Dr.--George Ba.s.s's whaleboat survey of the coast to the southward.

1797--Lieutenant Shortland discovered the Hunter River.

1798--Dr. George Ba.s.s and Matthew Flinders, in the NORFOLK; discovered Ba.s.s's Straits.

1798--Quarter-master Hacking revisits the Blue Mountains.

1799--Matthew Flinders, in the NORFOLK; to Gla.s.s-House and Hervey Bays.

1800--Christopher Dixon, in the ship ELLEGOOD; visited King George's Sound.

1801--James Grant, in the LADY NELSON; examined Ba.s.s's Straits and verified Ba.s.s's discovery.

1801--Ensign Barraillier; attempted exploration of the Blue Mountains.

1801-2--Matthew Flinders, in the INVESTIGATOR; prosecuted his survey of the coasts of Australia.

1801-2--Captains Baudin and Hamelin, with the French ships NATURALISTE and GeOGRAPHE; on the Australian coasts.

1802--Lieut. John Murray and Surveyor Grimes, in the LADY NELSON discovered and surveyed Port Phillip.

1803--George Cayley, botanist; attempt to discover pa.s.s over the Blue Mountains.

1803--Lieutenant-Governor Daniel Collins, from England, in H.M.S.

CALCUTTA, to form a penal settlement at Port Phillip, accompanied by the transport OCEAN. Landed the settlement at "The Sisters," and finally decided that Port Phillip was unfit to meet the requirements of settlement. They proceeded to Tasmania, where they were all murdered at Hobart Town.

1804-5--Lieutenant Charles Robbins and John Oxley, in the cutter INTEGRITY; examined Western Port with a view to settlement; opinion unfavourable.

1813--Messrs. Wentworth, Lawson, and Blaxland succeeded in crossing the Blue Mountains.

1814--Hamilton Hume, with his brother; explored the country round Berrima. His first trip.

1815--Deputy-Surveyor Evans discovered the first Australian inland river, the Macquarie.

1815--c.o.x finished a road over the Blue Mountains

1817--L. de Freycinet, in L'URANIE, touched at Sydney and Shark's Bay.

1817-20--Captain Phillip P. King, with Allan Cunningham, botanist, in the cutter MERMAID; survey of the Australian coasts.

1817--Messrs. Meehan and Hume; discovered Lake George, Lake Bathurst, and Goulburn Plains.

1817-19--John Oxley, Surveyor-General of New South Wales; Lachlan and Macquarie expeditions.

1819--Surveyor-General Oxley, accompanied by Messrs. Meehan and Hume to Jarvis Bay.

1819--Captain Sutherland, on a sailing voyage, visited Port Lincoln.

1820--Captain Stewart sent by Governor Macquarie with a small party in a boat to search for a pa.s.sage supposed to exist between Lake Bathurst and the sea. He lost his boat in Twofold Bay, and on endeavouring to reach Sydney overland was cut off by the natives.

1821-22--Captain Phillip P. King, in the BATHURST; continues the survey.

1822--Messrs. Lawson and Scott attempted to reach Liverpool Plains; discover the Goulburn River.

1822-24--Captain Duperry in LA COQUILLE; voyage amongst the Line Islands

1823--Captain Currie and Major Ovens on the Murrumbidgee

1823--Allan Cunningham found Pandora's Pa.s.s; a good stock route to the Liverpool Plains.

1823--Surveyor-General Oxley investigated Port Curtis, Port Bowen and Moreton Bay. Discovered the Brisbane River.

1824--Sir Gordon Bremer, in the TAMAR; to Port Essington.

1824--Melville Island settled

1824--Hamilton Hume and W. H. Hovell journey overland to Port Phillip.

1824--Penal settlement at Moreton Bay.

1825--Allan Cunningham north of Bathurst.

1825--Major Lockyer made a boat excursion up the Brisbane River.

1826--Captain Dillon, in the RESEARCH, on the west coast,

1826--Major Lockyer, founded King George's Sound settlement.

1826--Captain Dumont D'Urville, in the ASTROLABE, from touched at Ba.s.s's Strait.