 Around this time he probably wrote his "An Excursion to Port Arthur in 1842", of which an edition was published at the "Examiner" office, Launceston, some 60 years later.Burn accompanied Sir John and Lady Jane Franklin on their expedition to the west coast of Tasmania in 1842 which was described in his "Narrative of the Overland Journey … From Hobart Town to Macquarie Harbour, 1842" (published in Sydney 1955 with notes by G. Mackaness).Burn was editing the "South Britain or Tasmanian Literary Journal" in 1843, and afterwards went to Sydney and Auckland, where he lived for many years.