Draft letters, 1841-1843

 
Component identifier:
File 37
Content Summary:

Drafts and copies of letters from Stokes (Beagle, Sydney, Swan River and other places).

Addressees include: Admiralty, Sir William Parker; Marshall W.Clifton; Sir George Gipps; Hydrographer; Surveyor General, Swan River.

Subjects include: survey of Gulf of Carpentaria; naming of rivers Albert and Flinders 'the latter as a just tribute to the memory of a man Australia and Science owes much to'; suitable places for settlement 'the natives were neither numerous or troublesome'; survey of Bass Strait; tidal observations; Kents Group; survey of North East coast of Tasmania by Forsyth in Vansittart; survey of Tamar; requested surveys of Port Grey and Port Adelaide; Captain Sturt's proposed expedition; indications supporting theory of large inland water course; the natives of Halifax Bay 'wore neat mats over their heads and used a different kind of throwing stick'; new fauna; Booby Island; condition of the settlement at Port Essington; Survey of coast of Western Australia; Mount Fairfax; flora of the area.

(56p.)

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Location of this collection:
Parkes Place
Canberra ACT 2600, Australia
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