XXIV PROCEEDINGS, AUGUST. 



Moore, a well-known explorer, and he had asked him (Mr, Andrew) to 

 brinp under the notice of the Society that Scott's Track along the 

 Curvier Valley, and westward to the coast is as such incorrectly 

 described. It was, he knew of his own personal knowledge, Mr. 

 Moore who explored the route and cut the track referred to along which 

 many weeks later the Hon. J. R. Scott travelled. Colonel Legge io 

 speaking of Scott's Track used the name recently adopted by the Lands 

 Office, and it would be most unlikely that he should have any cause to 

 imagine that the gentleman whose name it bore had any claim to such 

 credit as miglit be attached to developing the first overland route from 

 the southern side of the island to Mount lleemskirk. The notes went 

 on to give a condensed chronological statement of the movements of the 

 two gentlemen referred to and their parties with the view of establishing 

 Mr. Moore's claim as the pioneer of this particular portion of the colony. 

 Encouraged by the indications of gold and tin found in the vicinity of 

 tne Pieman and its tributaries by Mr. Sprent's party, Mr. T. B. Moore 

 started from New Norfolk on January 1, 1877, his brother (Mr. .1. A, 

 Moore), and the writer of the present notes, with the object of finding 

 a practicable overland route to the West Coast in the deviation 

 recommended. The party were provisioned for four montiia, but in spite 

 of loss in supplies from depredations from bush vermin, remained in the 

 field for five months. Two months after the partj left Mr. Scott started 

 for the coast, and on the 13th of that month he (Mr. Andrew) returned 

 for supplies. He left his companions on the Mount Dundas Range, hard 

 at work cutting through some of the worst scrub that could exist. The 

 distance then reached was, according to Mr. Scott's own estimate, 60 

 miles from Lake St. Clair. He met Mr. Scott half-way back, and 

 directed him as to where he could best pick out Mr. Moore's route. 

 The Messrs. Moore had meanwhile made to the main deput, and they 

 met Mr. Scott near Lake Dora, and they gave him further directions to 

 assist him. When he (Mr. Andrew) returned to join the Moore party 

 on April '2, when nearly to the limit of their track, they found warm 

 ashes at a camp recently occupied by Scott, and indications of the route 

 he had taken in the shape of three direction notices, one pointing east- 

 wards to Mount Heemskirk, another along Moore's route north-westerly 

 to the summit of Mount Dundas, and another towards home, giving the 

 distance from Hobart 170 miles. It was on May \',\ that Mr. Andrew 

 next joined his comrades, and he then learnt tliat they and Mr. Scott's 

 party ha'l combined to cut the track down the spur of Mount Dundas 

 to the open coast. Moore's party returned to Hobart in May, 1877, 

 when Mr. J. A. Moore wrote to the Lands department, detailing what 

 occurred in connection with Mr. Scott, and stating that they (.Moore's 

 party) were the first white men ever in Dundas. and, judging from 

 the look of the country, he (Mr. Moore) doubted whether a blackfellow 

 had ever been there. It took them 10 days to get from the foot of 

 Mount Ilead to the top of Dundas. The then Minister of Lands and 

 Works (the Hon. N. J. Brown) at that time wrote to the Hobart Af< miry 

 stating that as to Mr. Moore's statement that his party had been through 

 the country before the Hon. .J. R. Scott, he (Mr. Brown) asserted from 

 his own knowledge that his statement was correct. The notes concluded 

 by pointing out that further testimony as to Mr. Moore's priority as the 

 explorer in this part of the colony was borne by the late Mr. Sprent in 

 his paper on recent explorations on the West Coast. Mr. Sprent did not 

 mention that Mr. Scott in any way assisted in the exploration and 

 development of the Western country. 



Mr. R. M. .louN.STON said he readily endorsed the statement that Mr. 

 Scott would be one of the first to acknowledge the claim of the Messrs. 

 Moore to havinir discovered the track. He thought it duo to Mr. Moora 

 that the track in question should bear his name. 



