In Memory Of French Navigators.

The names which stud our southern coast, and are familiar in our mouth as household words—Bruny Island, D'Entracesteaux Channel, Recherche Bay, Port Esperance, River Huon, Cape Raoul, and others—stand a perpetual monument to the memory of the French navigators on these South Sea Islands.—J. B. Walker, in the Royal Society, Hobart.

The French discovery crews suffered terribly from want of precautions, coupled with the miserable character of their victualling.—Ibid.

French voyages of discovery were singularly fatal to their commanders. Beside La Perouse, who perished with all his ship's company, not one of the commanders who visited these waters lived to return to his native country. Marion du Fresne, was killed in New Zealand; Admiral D'Entracesteaux died at sea, off the Admiralty Isles, and his next-in-command, Huon Kermadec, at New Caledonia; Brandon died at Mauritius, on the voyage home.—Ibid.