Thanks to Josephine for her many postings of Somerset interesting snippets. I was especially pleased about the link about Matthew Flinders' map. Having read the replies, I've now done what I should have done earlier, and used Google to find an Australian version of what the call was. http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5h8RoTDQ0GUGPnAH2R5wgY_2VcyFQ?docId=CNG.68cec2fa0c33fd7141297bf4f1271b08.251 This would indicate that there was never a call for the "return" which has caused angst for so many listers. It does, I hope, create a balance. I, too, was guilty of relying on the term 'return", and on the "flavour" of the newspaper article. I should have know better. I do wonder, if Roy read the article, whether, using his arguments of the Domesday Book, he supports the return of the Elgin Marbles? As the location of Flinder's map is in the UK Hydrographic Office in Taunton, and that appears to be the only Somerset connection, we may have wandered a bit far from our remit for this mailing list. So my apologies for extending it, and I promise to desist. Bev ----- Original Message ----- From: "Josephine Jeremiah" <jojeremiah@dsl.pipex.com> To: <bristol_and_somerset@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, January 29, 2011 10:10 PM Subject: Re: [B&S] Australia calls for return of historic map -- this isSomerset article > On Sat, 29 Jan 2011 11:52:40 -0000, bev bonning <kosan@optusnet.com.au> > wrote: > >> I've certainly read about the call for the return of this map here in >> Australia. >> Historically it has an importance for Australians. >> And it really doesn't matter where it was created. >> However I learned more about it from the link that Josephine posted than >> I knew previously. > >> I still remember the lessons in primary school about great navigators >> likeMatthew Flinders. But I didn't know of his Somerset connection even >> thoughthat is through the location of the UK Hydrographic Office. > > Hi Bev and Listers, > > I've discovered something new, today, too, on the BBC web page concerning > the map of Australia drawn by Matthew Flinders. > > Looking for more, I see that there is further information and an > illustration of this map on the following web page: > > http://www.slsa.sa.gov.au/encounter/collection/B12985211_92.htm > > Josephine > > -- > Josephine Jeremiah > www.ianandjo.dsl.pipex.com > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > BRISTOL_AND_SOMERSET-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >