It may, nevertheless, have proceeded from the same source as some others of a later date, as that one in Royal Possession, and the one in the keeping of the Admiralty. In fact, the latter is very similar in its text to _Corner's_ Log, always excepting the reference to _Botany Bay_ instead of Cook's own appellation of _Stingray Harbour_, and the insertion of the name of _New South Wales_, or _New Wales_, instead of the total absence of those words in ALL the Logs of Cook and his officers. It was evident to me, as to others, that several copies, more or less similar, had been sent to England after the last day's record in any _Log_ upon leaving New Holland, the name of which is alone the heading of any page of a _Log_. I have not seen the so-called _Queen's_ Log, but any one who examined _Corner's_ Log, as many did, would see that it came here originally with blank spaces for certain days, and others were vacant to receive the proper names of places, which had, it is to be presumed, to be added in this country!! It is, however, not a little puzzling to find that Cook, who is _reported_ to have sent these copies from Batavia, while staying there, should have allowed a copy for the Admiralty to go off with NEW SOUTH WALES as the name of the new territory, and send another (Corner's) bearing the denomination of NEW WALES. Still more extraordinary that Cook's own well ascertained _Logs_, two in the British Museum and one at Sunderland--the only ones extant--should have neither _New South Wales_, _New Wales_, nor _Botany Bay_ mentioned. The knowledge of such circumstances might well have caused experts to entertain doubts. I had this hawked-about _Log_ in my possession, and took tracings of portions, satisfying a well-known historian, and valued public officer at the Record Office, that the Log before us had been tampered with. Although one of the empty spaces had, as in other cases, been filled up, in a handwriting different from that in the text, as _Port Jackson_, which never appears in the Logs of Cook and his officers, it was easy to suppose it referred to a Secretary to the Admiralty, Sir George Jackson, afterwards recognised as Sir George Duckett, the great friend to Bishop Stortford. Erasures and re-writing are not confined to _Botany Bay_. _Rockingham Bay_ has evidently had two earlier changes. Halifax Bay has similarly suffered. If adopted, as some fancy, as the Log used by Dr. Hawkesworth, considerable freedom was used. The signatures to all Cook's genuine logs and copies is _Jam^s Cook_, with a grand flourish; but Corner's has _James Cook_ only. CORNER AND BOTANY BAY. _Corner's Log_, having been re-written, corrected in spelling, &c., and afterwards printed and circulated as a veritable Cook's Log, what it had to say about _Botany Bay_ may reasonably excite the deepest interest and attention.