240 Geographical Notices. 
The publication of Mr. Gregory’s report, without any decisive 
indications of Leichhardt’s route, led Mr. Clarke to prepare t 
paper already referred to in the hope that the discussion reed : 
initiate another expedition into the district yet unexplored, be — 
tween the 145th and 147th meridians, and which, as he con — 
ceives, may bear traces of Leichhardt’s route, although the ex — 
plorer probably perished far to the northward and westward 
the Victoria. We have not room to make extended extracts 
from this paper. Its whole tendency is to show that the inten 
tion of Leichhardt was to skirt and not cross the desert. There 
not the marks of Leichhardt. Various independent witnesses a 
also cited to confirm the opinion of Mr. Clarke that Leichhantt 
ollows. 
“Tf then he did reach the Victoria in 1848, and was not cut 
off, and we have now no ground to conclude he was, he 
in case of finding the country impracticable to the west, have 
gone round by the head of the Victoria, towards the north, 
and it is somewhere between the head of the Victoria am the 
head of the Clark, that, I think, his tracks are to be looked fm 
not, probably, on any line of route explored by Mitchell, eo 
the westward, or, crossing Mitchell’s track, on a line to P 
Range and the Burdekin. Or driven in by drought, he a 
have taken a course on the 148th meridian, without gong greg 
the Maranoa, where Hely could not trace him, on a new We 
is own. . 
“Tt isin the hope that a new expedition may be organi 
with a view to the exploration of the country west of er 
Belyando, as well as to ascertain whether any traces © | 
lamented friend can be found, that I have made this com” 
cation; believing that, as I have had itin my power OF" 
. Matter in a tangible form, and to quote from manuscript the 
in my possession, what has not before been commit Oak civ 
ae ‘am only rendering a service to the cause of scene 
tion, and humanity.” ees $n this 
The following paragraph may be read with intersa Prof 
connection. It is a letter of Dr. J. Palacky of Prague Chemis 
C. Ritter of Berlin, printed in Poggendorf’s ‘Annalen fiir 49°" 
vol. 100, 1857. %y pelow the 
“The statement of Sturt that Lake Torrens ne must lie | 
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Bd. ii, p. 299, where in connection with Kennedy's on log 
