word in print. Shaw may thus be
regarded as its inventor. According to its title-page, the
book quoted is by two authors, the <i>Zoology</i>, by Shaw and
the <i>Botany</i> by Smith. The <i>Botany</i>, however, was
not published. Of the two names--<i>Australia</i> and
<i>Australasia</i>--suggested in the opening of the quotation,
to take the place of New Holland, Shaw evidently favoured
<i>Australia</i>, while Smith, in the `Transactions of the
Linnaean Society,' vol. iv. p. 213 (1798), uses
<i>Australasia</i> for the continent several times. Neither
name, however, passed then into general use. In 1814, Robert
Brown the Botanist speaks of "<i>Terra Australis</i>," not of
"<i>Australia</i>." "Australia" was reinvented by Flinders.

<i>Quotations for " Terra Australis"</i>--

1621. R. Burton, `Anatomy of Melancholy' (edition 1854), p. 56:

"For the site, if you will needs urge me to it, I am not fully
resolved, it may be in <i>Terra Australis incognita</i>, there
is room enough (for of my knowledge, neither that hungry
Spaniard nor Mercurius Britannicus have yet discovered half of
it)."

Ibid. p. 314:

"<i>Terra Australis incognita</i>. ..and yet in likelihood it
may be so, for without all question, it being extended from the
tropic of Capricorn to the circle Antarctic, and lying as it
doth in the temperate zone, cannot choose but yield in time
some flourishing kingdoms to succeeding ages, as America did
unto the Spaniards."

Ibid. p. 619:

"But these are hard-hearted, unnatural, monsters of men,
shallow politicians, they do not consider that a great part of
the world is not yet inhabited as it ought, how many colonies
into America, <i>Terra Australis incognita</i>, Africa may be
sent?"

<i>Early quotations for "Australian</i>"

1693. `Nouveau Voyage de la Terre Australe, contenant les
Coutumes et les Moeurs des Australiens, etc.' Par Jaques
Sadeur [Gabriel de Foigny].

[This is a work of fiction, but interesting as being the first
book in which the word <i>Australiens</i> is used. The next
quotation is from the English translation.]

1693. `New Discovery, Terra Incognita Australis,' p. 163
(`O.E.D.'):

"It is easy to judge of the incomparability of the Australians
with the people of Europe."

1766. Callander, `Terra Australis' (Translation of De Brosses),
c. ii. p. 280:

"One of the Australians, or natives of the Southern World,
whom Gonneville had brought into France."

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