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Archive Reference / Library Class No.	D8760/F/LIB/1/1
Former Reference	D3311/206
Title	"A Voyage to Terra Australis: Volume 1", by Matthew Flinders
Date	1814
Description	The voyage was "undertaken for the purpose of completeing the discovery of that vast country" in 1801-1803 in H.M.S. Investigator, the armed vessel Porpoise and Cumberland Schooner, with an account of shipwreck of the Porpoise, arrival of the Cumberland at Mauritius and imprisonment of the commander during six and a half years on the island. With appendix. 619 pages. Size, 67cm x 30cm. Published by G. and W. Nicol, Pall Mall, London. On the front page is the following inscription "This copy belonged to Sir John Franklin who sailed as Midshipman under Capt. Flinders, his uncle by marriage", by P.L.G. [Philip Lyttelton Gell: page numbers for references to Sir John Franklin are also listed (pages 15, 110, 117, 137 and 228) Bookplate of Philip Lyttelton Gell on front endpaper
Extent	1 large volume
Level	Item
Repository	Derbyshire Record Office
Archive Creator	Gell family of Hopton Hall, Wirksworth
Term	Ocean travel
	Explorers
	Arctic exploration
	Naval personnel
	Navy officers
	Sailors