150 An Historical Review of the 



the Castlereagh, and to the tributaries of the Darling as well as 

 over a great extent of the mountain ranges of New South "Wales ; 

 Mount Seaview, being the loftiest oi those which he examined, 

 attaining an elevation of 6000 feet. 



Our acquaintance, however, with the Lachlan and Macquarie 

 Rivers, dates from an earlier period, and we are indebted to Mr. 

 Evans for the first account of them. Had Mr. Oxley been able 

 to extend his journey for one day farther to the south-west, the 

 Murrumbidgee, and probably with it the Murray, would have 

 been discovered. 



Mr. Allan Cunningham was the first who reached the 

 sources of the Darling from Liverpool-plains, and had the first 

 glimpse of the splendid pastoral country, now generally known 

 as Darling Downs. The highest elevation examined by bim is 

 Mount Lindsay, in the vicinity of Moreton Bay (5700 feet). 



Messrs. Hume and Hovell performed the first overland 

 journey from New South Wales to Port Phillip, determining 

 thereby the western limits of the Alps and crossing all the 

 rivers rising on the western side of those gigantic mountains. 



Captain Sturt, accompanied by Mr. Hume, discovered in 

 1829 the Darling, a river of such great importance as regards 

 the wide extent of its tributaries. Where it was struck (in 

 lat. 30° S.) it proved saline. The discovery of the Bogan (or 

 New Year's Creek), of Oxley's table land and other features 

 of the interior, resulted likewise from this expedition. 



Major, afterwards Sir Thomas Mitchell, in three expeditions, 

 undertaken in 1831-32, 1835 and 1836, added to our infor- 

 mation on the Darling and many of its tributaries, discovered 

 Mount Hope, the Loddon, the Grampians, the Wimmera, the 

 Glenelg Eiver, the Pyrenees, Hopkins River, Campaspe, Mount 

 Macedon, Fuller's Range ; indeed the greatest inland portion of 

 our colony. But our enterprising citizens Messrs. Henty, were 

 the harbingers of colonisation on these shores. Bearings were 

 likewise obtained by Sir Thomas Mitchell to some prominent 

 points on the western outskirts of our Alps, for instance, to 

 Mount Buller and to Mount Aberdeen. 



The exertions of this celebrated man, which tended so ma- 

 terially to our early welfare, have not been, we must confess, 

 sufficiently appreciated by this colony. 



Lieut, (now Sir George) Grey, Governor of South Africa, 

 landed towards the end of 1837, at Hanover Bay, whence he 

 discovered and explored to some extent the Glenelg River. It 

 is a stream of some importance, probably navigable near its 

 mouth, winding either through sandstone table land, or a fine 



