...George Bass, surgeon of the ' Reliance,' are well related in the pages of Capt. Flinders : " he was a man whose ardour for discovery was not to be repressed by any obstacles, nor deterred by danger." — Flinders' Voyage to Terra Australia, I. xcvii. By botanists he is commemorated in the genus BASSIA....

...8vo. BASS, (George,) surgeon of the Reliance, British ship of war, a man whose ardour for discoveries was not to be repressed by any obstacles, nor deterred by danger. He was the discoverer of Bass's Strait, between the continent of New Holland and Van Diemen's Land....

...8vo. BASS, (George,) surgeon of the Reliance, British ship of war, a man whose ardour for discoveries was not to be repressed by any obstacles, nor deterred by danger. He was the discoverer of Bass's Strait, between the continent of New Holland and Van Diemen's Land....

...discovering the strait since called by his name. He was, according to the testimony of his friend Flinders, " a man whose ardour for discovery was not to be repressed by any obstacles, nor deterred by danger." Arriving at Sydney with the second fleet, as Surgeon of the "Reliance," he at once entered upon his...

...of the most remarkable on record, and the details are best given in Mr. Flinders' own words : — " In Mr. George Bass, surgeon of the Reliance, I had...the duty of the ship, and procurable means, could admit. " Projects of this nature, when originating in the minds of young men, are usually termed romantic...

...the more distant openings, marked, but not explored by that celebrated navigator, had been seen. " In Mr. George Bass, surgeon of the Reliance, I had...to be repressed by any obstacles, nor deterred by any dangers ; and with this friend a determination was formed of completing the examination of the...

...than his own. This was George Bass, the surgeon of the ship, a man, as Ins friend describes him, " whose ardour for discovery was not to be repressed by any obstacles, nor deterred by danger." Bass and his midshipman friend conferred many a night on these schemes, and formed the grand resolution...

...extended beyond the three harbours ; and even in these some of the rivers were not altogether explored. In Mr. George Bass, surgeon of the Reliance, I had...ardour for discovery was not to be repressed by any obstacle, nor deterred by danger; and with this friend a determination was formed of completing the...

...had been long separated, Flinders narrates with a sort of fiery pleasure his first acquaintance with 'a man whose ardour for discovery was not to be repressed by any obstacles, nor deterred by danger,' and accompanies almost every reference to his companion in many dangerous explorations with epithets of...

...be met, things to be overcome ! Flinders wrote later of the plans they formed during the voyage : ' With this friend a determination was formed of completing...as the duty of the ship and procurable means could admit.' How absurdly inadequate the ' procurable means ' were to be, and what, nevertheless, was accomplished...