301 Account of the Neiv Colony of Western Australia, [Oct, 



As Dr. Benza's narrative has frequently, to my knowledge, been adopt- 

 ed as a guide to travellers, and as on one occasion a party of five 

 besides myself endeavoured in vain to find the " Devil's Gap" from 

 the drawing thereof which accompanied his paper, owing to that 

 faithful delineation being taken not from the road but from a point low 

 down, I venture to send a rough sketch* of the Gap as seen from the 

 route to Murraypett. The Gap alluded to is about two miles only from 

 Murraypett Bungalow (not four as supposed by Dr. Benza), and is 

 situated at a turn of the road immediately after descending rapidly 

 from a high rocky bleak ridge, and at the entrance of a very remark- 

 able narrow defile which leads to the Sispara range. 



Camp Neilgherries, July 1, 1837. 



VIII.— Some Account of the New Colony of Western Australia, more 

 especially of the Swan River District, the Natives, Settlers, Climate t 

 Soil, Productions, fyc. — By William Milligan, Esq. m. d. — Assis' 

 tant Surgeon H. M. 63d Regiment — Staff Surgeon at Poonamallee. 



The new colony of Western Australia is situated on the western 

 coast of New Holland, and extends from Cape Londonderry, in lat. 

 13° 44' south, to west Cape Howe, in lat. 33° 8' south, and 

 Hertogs Island on the western coast in long. 1 12° 52 to 129 east 

 longitude, reckoning from the meridian of Greenwich. 



The Swan River district (the first settled, and as yet the most im- 

 portant) is situated in the great plain of Quartania, bounded on the 

 north by the Swan river, lat. 32° 1|' long. 115° 40' ; on the south by 

 the Murray river, lat. 32° 33' long. 115° 44' ; to the east by the 

 Darling range of mountains, and to the west by the Indian Ocean. 



* We regret that we are unable to introduce a lithograph from this sketch, but we are 

 necessarily obliged to be as economical as possible in our illustrations, and as a mere 

 matter of topographical interest, we do not think one called for in this case. The sketch 

 which accompanied Dr. Benza's memoir was intended to delineate the Gap as an inter- 

 esting geological phenomenon. Captain Underwood's description will sufficiently 

 indicate the true position, we think, for the guidance of travellers,— -Editor. 



