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FLINDERS, MATTHEW AND GRIMES, CHARLES
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Description
A TOPOGRAPHICAL PLAN OF THE SETTLEMENTS OF NEW SOUTH WALES INCLUDING PORT JACKSON, BOTANY BAY, AND BROKEN BAY. SURVEYED BY MESSRS GRIMES & FLINDERS COMMUNICATED BY LT. COL. PATERSON OF THE NEW SOUTH WALES CORPS. London, Aaron Arrowsmith, 1799.
820 by 655 mm, folded once in fine condition, with minor offsetting.
This chart shows the knowledge as of 1796 of Sydney, the Hawkesbury, Botany Bay, and the coast as far south as Lake Illawarra, uncovered by the explorations of George Bass and Matthew Flinders and his servant Martin in the skiff Tom Thumb. Their first expedition from 20 October to 3 November 1795 in the Tom Thumb, which Flinders described as 'a little boat of about eight feet keel and five feet beam', took them into Botany Bay and up the Georges River, where two years later a small settlement ? Banks Town ? was established.
Five months later, in March 1796, the same crew set out in a replacement for the Tom Thumb, to explore the coast south of Botany Bay. In spite of bad weather, and the swamping of their little craft, they reached Lake Illawarra (which they named 'Tom Thumb's Lagoon') near present-day Port Kembla.
Flinders made sketches of their explorations and these, together with topographical surveys of Port Jackson, Prospect Hill and the Hawkesbury Settlement, by Charles Grimes, the colonial surveyor, were taken to England by Major Paterson in September 1796. From there the great London map publisher Aaron Arrowsmith published this chart on 12 March 1799.
Included in the chart are the locations and the names of the owners of 260 land grants of between 25 and 170 acres made to that time.
Ingleton says, 'The chart was a notable landmark in Flinders's career - the first published chart in which a survey by him was included - and, as the chart was well-received, it brought his name to the attention of the officials interested in the colony... Sir Joseph Banks in particular'.
820 by 655 mm, folded once in fine condition, with minor offsetting.
This chart shows the knowledge as of 1796 of Sydney, the Hawkesbury, Botany Bay, and the coast as far south as Lake Illawarra, uncovered by the explorations of George Bass and Matthew Flinders and his servant Martin in the skiff Tom Thumb. Their first expedition from 20 October to 3 November 1795 in the Tom Thumb, which Flinders described as 'a little boat of about eight feet keel and five feet beam', took them into Botany Bay and up the Georges River, where two years later a small settlement ? Banks Town ? was established.
Five months later, in March 1796, the same crew set out in a replacement for the Tom Thumb, to explore the coast south of Botany Bay. In spite of bad weather, and the swamping of their little craft, they reached Lake Illawarra (which they named 'Tom Thumb's Lagoon') near present-day Port Kembla.
Flinders made sketches of their explorations and these, together with topographical surveys of Port Jackson, Prospect Hill and the Hawkesbury Settlement, by Charles Grimes, the colonial surveyor, were taken to England by Major Paterson in September 1796. From there the great London map publisher Aaron Arrowsmith published this chart on 12 March 1799.
Included in the chart are the locations and the names of the owners of 260 land grants of between 25 and 170 acres made to that time.
Ingleton says, 'The chart was a notable landmark in Flinders's career - the first published chart in which a survey by him was included - and, as the chart was well-received, it brought his name to the attention of the officials interested in the colony... Sir Joseph Banks in particular'.