The scheme chiefly important to Van Diemen's Land, was the settlement of Swan River. "The History of Tasmania, Volume I (of 2)", - John West

We drew nigh to the Island of Rottnest, about sixteen miles from the mouth of the river Swan and anchored to the north of it, waiting for a pilot from Fremantle. "The Bushman Life in a New Country", - Edward Wilson Landor

He sprang at them with the small dagger ready by his side and struck at Swan "William Pitt and the Great War", - John Holland Rose

Thereupon the swan vanished, and was seen no more for some years, when it again appeared to announce the loss of one of the house by shipwreck. "Strange Pages from Family Papers", - T. F. Thiselton Dyer