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travels beyond Tangiddii — was little else than pure invention. 

 I examined him in the hulk at Sydney, in the presence of the 

 acting Governor, and was quite satisfied, that he had never 

 been beyond the Nundawar range. Nevertheless he per- 

 sisted in his story of the river, and a party of mounted po- 

 lice, commanded by Captain Forbes of the 39th regiment, 

 repaired to theNammoy, in search of a gang of bushrangers, 

 but not without hopes of finding " the Kindur." 



That active and enterprising officer reached the Gwydir 

 in lat. 29° 27' 37'' S., long. 150° 5' E. Tracing upwards, 

 its course, or a branch of this river, he arrived near the 

 western extremity of the Nundawar range, and ascended 

 the hill named by him Mount Albuera. Being accompanied 

 by a native oi Bathurst, he ascertained that the aboriginal 

 name of the singular looking hill, forming the western ex- 

 tremity of that range, was " Courada," (the name of the 

 Barber's " burning mountain,") and his plains of " Ballyran" 

 were found to be those crossed by my party, in returning 

 from Snodgrass Lagoon. 



CuuiuJafroin the Plains. 



This journey of discovery proved, that any large river 

 flowing to the north-west, must be far to the northward of 

 latitude 29°. All the rivers south of that jjarallel, and 

 which had been described by the Barber as falling into such 

 a river as " the Kindur," have been ascertained to belong 

 wholly to the basin of the Darling. 



The country we traversed was very eligible in many parts, 

 for the formation of grazing establishments— as a proof of 

 which it may be mentioned, that flocks of sheep soon 

 covered the plains of jNIuHnba, and that the country around 

 thf T^arber's stork-vard, lias ever since the return of the ex- 



