3206 New South Wales. 
Watts, aid-de-camp; Mr. Redfern, assistant surgeon; Mr. 
Oxley, surveyor general; Mr. Meehan, deputy surveyor general ; 
Mr. Lewin, painter and naturalist; and Mr. G. W. Evans, de- 
puty surveyor of lands, who had been sent forward for the pur- 
pose of making further discoveries, and rejoined the party on the 
day of arrival at Bathurst Plains. 
“© The commencement of the ascent from Emu Plains to the 
first depét, and thence to a resting place, now called Spring 
Wood, distant 12 miles from Emu Ford, was through a very 
- handsome open forest of lofty trees, and much more practicable 
and easy than was expected. The facility of the ascent for this 
distance excited surprise, and is certainly not well calculated to 
give the traveller a just idea of the difficulties he has afterwards 
to encounter.—At a further distance of four miles a sudden 
change is perceived in the appearance of the timber and the 
quality of the soil—the former becoming stunted, and the latter 
barren and rocky. At this place the fatigues of the journey may 
be said to commence. Here the country became altogether 
mountainous, and extremely rugged.—Near to the 18th mile 
mark (it is to be observed that the measure commences from Emu 
Ford) a pile of stones attracted attention: it is close to the line 
of road, on the top of a rugged and abrupt-ascent, and is sup- 
posed to have been placed there by Mr. Caley, as the extreme 
limit of his tour:—hence the governor gave that part of the 
mountain the name of Caley’s Repulse.- To have penetrated 
even so far, was at that time an effort of no small difficulty. — 
From hence, forward to the 26th mile, is a succession of steep 
and rugged hills, some of which are almost so abrupt as to deny 
a passage altogether; but at this place a considerably extensive 
plain is arrived at, which constitutes the summit of the Western 
Mountains; and from thence a most extensive and beautiful 
prospect presents itself on all sides to the eye. The town of 
Windsor, the river Hawkesbury, Prospect Hill, and other objects 
within that part of the colony now inhabited, of equal interest, 
are distinctly seen from hence.—The majestic grandeur of the 
situation, combined with the various objects to be seen from this 
place, induced the governor to give it the appellation of The 
King’s Table Land.—On the SW. side of the King’s ‘lable Land 
the mountain terminates in abrupt precipices of immense depth, 
at the bottom of which is seen a glen, as romantically beautiful 
as can be imagined, bounded on the further side by mountains 
of great magnitude, terminating equally abruptly as the others ; 
and the whole thickly covered with timber. The length of this 
picturesque and remarkable tract of country isabout 24 miles, 
to which the governor gave the name of The Prince Regent’s 
Glen,—Proceeding hence to the 33d mile on the top of a hill, 
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