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an opening presents itself on the SW, side of the Prince Regent’s 
Glen, from whence a view is obtained particularly beautiful and 
grand—mountains rising beyond mountains, with stupendous 
masses of rock in the fore-ground, here strike the eye with ad- 
miration and astonishment. The circular form in which the 
whole is so wonderfully disposed, induced the governor to give 
the name of Pitt’s Amphitheatre (in honour of the late right 
honourable William Pitt) to this offset or branch from the Prince 
Regent’s Glen. The road continues from-hence, for the space 
of 17 miles, on the ridge of the mountain which forms one side 
of the Prince Regent’s Glen, and there it suddenly terminates ia 
nearly a perpendicular precipice of 676 feet high, as ascertained 
by measurement. The road constructed by Mr, Cox down this 
rugged and tremendous descent, through all its windings, is no 
less than three-fourths of a mile in length, and has been exe- 
cuted with such skill and stability as reflects much credit on him. 
The labour here undergone, and the difficulties surmounted, can 
only be appreciated by those who view this scene. In order to 
perpetuate the memory of Mr. Cox’s services, the governor 
deemed it a tribute justly due to him, to give his name to this 
grand and extraordinary pass; and he accordingly called it 
Cox’s Pass. Having descended into the valley at the bottom 
of this pass, the retrospective view of the overhanging mountain 
is magnificently grand. Although the present pass is the only 
practicable point yet discovered for descending by, yet the moun- 
tain is much higher than those on either side of it, from whence 
it is distinguished at a considerable.distance, when approaching 
it from the interior, and in this point of view it has the appear- 
ance of a very high distinct hill, although it is in fact only the 
abrupt termination of a ridge. The governor gave the name of 
Mount York to this termination of the ridge, in honour of his 
royal highness the duke of York. 
* On descending Cox’s Pass, the governor was much gratified 
hy the appearance of good pasture land and soil fit for cultiva- 
tion, which was the first he had met with since the commence- 
ment of his tour. ~The valley at the base of Mount York he 
called The Vale of Clwyd, in consequence of the strong re- 
semblance it bore to the vale of that name in North Wales. The 
grass in this vale is of a good quality and very abundant, and 
a riyulet of fine water runs along it from the eastward, which 
unites itsélf at the western extremity of the vale with another 
rivulet containing still more water.—The junction of these two 
ams forms a very handsome river, now called by the governor 
’s River ; which takes its course, as has been since ascer- 
d, through the Prince Regent’s Glen, and empties itself into 
ae Nepean; and it is conjectured, from the nature of the 
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