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bear his name. His great success in his expeditions procured 

 him the title of " The father of Australian discovery." 



The Gregory family were inveterate explorers. In 1846, 

 A. C. Gregory, F. T. Gregory, and H. C. Gregory, without any 

 assistants, commenced operations by making an expedition along 

 the Western coast of Australia. In 1848, A. C. Gregory with 

 C. F. Gregory and others, conducted a second expedition over 

 1500 miles of country, and in the same year, A. C. Gregory, 

 accompanied by Governor Charles Fitzgerald and others, con- 

 ducted an expedition from Perth to the Geraldine lead mine, 

 when the Governor received a bad spear wound from the 

 aborigines. In 1855, A. C. Gregory, accompanied by H. C. 

 Gregory, F. Mueller (as botanist), and others, started from 

 Brisbane on an expedition which lasted 16 months, and is more 

 particularly referred to hereafter. In 1857, F. T. Gregory led 

 an expedition to trace the Murchison River to its source, and in 

 1858, accompanied by James S. Roe (as botanist) and others on 

 a second expedition. In 1857-8, A. C. Gregory with C. F. 

 Gregory and others, conducted an expedition in search of 

 Leichhardt, and in 1861, F. C. Gregory, accompanied by Mr. P. 

 Wallcott (as collector in natural history and botany), conducted 

 another expedition, promoted principally by English capitalists 

 interested in cotton manufacture, who proposed to establish a 

 new colony on the north-west coast, having for its special object 

 the cultivation of cotton. 



In 1848, Mr. E. B. Kennedy, accompanied by twelve men, 

 started on an expedition intended to penetrate from Rockingham 

 Bay to Cape York, which he accomplished, but at the expense of 

 the lives of himself and nine of his party. William Carron and 

 two others were by great good fortune rescued, almost at their 

 last gasp : Carron published an account of the expedition, and 

 the story of poor Kennedy's death, so touchingly described by the 

 faithful Jacky Jacky. Carron was an excellent botanist, and, 

 notwithstanding the disastrous termination of the expedition, 

 was able to bring many fresh plants to our knowledge : he was 

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