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called Scirpus Mere), about a mile, returning thence to tlie 

 west of Picton, and on a later journey, proceeding westerly to 

 near the head of Stonequarry Creek. From this point, he 

 travelled north-easterly, and then northerly on the eastern 

 side of Werriberri or Monkey Creek (which he named Brush 

 Creek), passing close to where the village of The Oaks now 

 stands, and returning to the Nepean at a point between Cob- 

 bitty and Bringelly. Here he crossed, and proceeded in a 

 nearly direct line to Bent's Basin, which locality he termed 

 Dove Dale.* The area roughly bounded by lines joining 

 Camden, Menangle, Picton, and The Oaks, Caley named Vac- 

 cary Forest, afterwards known as the Cow Pastures. 



Francis BarraJlier. — Ensign Francis I'arrallier, when trying 

 to find a passage across the Blue Mountains in November, 

 1802,t passed Menangle and the site of the present town of 

 Picton ; and, keeping well to the south of The Oaks, reached 

 the Nattai River, which he followed about six miles to its 

 junction with the Wollondilly. He next proceeded up that 

 river to a point just beyond the junction of the Tonalli, and 

 went thence westerly past the South Peak, Colong, and Bin- 

 dook Swamp to Gulf Creek, where he turned into the Kow- 

 mung River, and up Christy's Creek, until stopped by a 

 waterfall nearly 100 feet high. He records having collected 

 plants just before descending into the Nattai on the 9th 

 November, and about Colong on the 30th November, 1802, 

 though none of the localities beyond Nattai are referred to 

 under their present names. § 



The route dealt with in the first part of this paper crosses 

 Caley 's track at The Oaks, while the succeeding parts deal 

 largely with the country traversed by Barrallier beyond the 

 Burragorang Valley. 



*See Historical Records of New South Wales, Vol. v., p. 724, with map. 

 tSee Historical Records of New South Wales, Vol. v., p. 749, with map. 

 § For detailed account of Barrallier's route, see a paper by the Author, 

 in " The Surveyor," 1910, p. 141. 



