. The life of Napoleon I, including new materials from the British official records . XEW SOUTH WALES, AS SHOWX IX THE CARTEPublished in the Atlas of ]. iNERALE DE LA NOUVELLE HOLLANDE, 1807.(lion, Le Soeur and Petit. XV AUSTRALIA 353 Apart from the compilation of the most accurate mapof Australia which had then appeared, and the naming ofseveral features on its coasts — , Capes Berrouilli andGrantheaume, the Bays of Rivoll and of Lacepede, andthe Freycinet Peninsula, which are still retained—theFrench expedition achieved no geographical results of thefirst importance. Its political aims n
. The life of Napoleon I, including new materials from the British official records . XEW SOUTH WALES, AS SHOWX IX THE CARTEPublished in the Atlas of ]. iNERALE DE LA NOUVELLE HOLLANDE, 1807.(lion, Le Soeur and Petit. XV AUSTRALIA 353 Apart from the compilation of the most accurate mapof Australia which had then appeared, and the naming ofseveral features on its coasts — , Capes Berrouilli andGrantheaume, the Bays of Rivoll and of Lacepede, andthe Freycinet Peninsula, which are still retained—theFrench expedition achieved no geographical results of thefirst importance. Its political aims now claim attention. A glance atthe accompanying map will show that, under the guise ofbeing an emissary of civilization. Commodore Baudin wasprepared to claim half the continent for France. Indeed,his final inquiry at Sydney about the extent of the Britishclaims on the Pacific coast was so significant as to elicitfrom Governor King the reply that the whole of VanDiemens Land and of the coast from Cape Howe on thesouth of the mainland to Cape York on the north wasBritish territory. King also notified the suspicious actionof the French Commande
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