ABSTRACT
To begin to show how many perceptions of space and representation intersect in one place I have discussed the causality that Arthur and Frankland calculated. The schematic layout of the proclamation board and the map of the Black Line are paradigmatic of the British war machine. The picture does not cross out cultural divides by communicating, but it does relate itself to local sites and means of marking them with dendroglyphs or bark-drawings. on the one hand, the Cartesian efforts of the British settlement in Tasmania in 1830 are still dependent on the Euclidean spaces they have mapped. on the other hand, the Aboriginal drawings in the following chapters are already a necessary source for the imagery drawn up by Arthur and Frankland.
