NEW SOUTH WALES. ' 
imexpefled delays from deep ravines and other obftaclesj 
frequently force the traveller from his diretSl courfej and 
baffle every conjecture concerning the time required for 
paffing a certain tradt. The utmoft extent of this excurfion 
in a dire6l line had not been more than thirty miles, and it 
had taken up five days. The return of the party was 
effedted with much more eafe ; the track was madcj 
and the trees marked the whole way where they had 
paffed ; with thefe affiftances they reached their boats in 
a day and a half. 
It was fcill the general opinion that the appearance of 
the country promifed the difcovery of a large river in 
that diftrid, whenever the line nov/ taken could be fully 
purfued. Another expedition was therefore planned, in 
which it was determined, if poflible,. to reach either 
Lanfdown or Carmarthen. Hills : and the hope of fo 
important a difcovery as that of a river made every 
one anxious to go, notwithftanding the great fatigue 
with which thefe undertakings were attended. But this 
defign was for the preient unavoidably deferred„ Go-= 
vernor Phillip, vv^ho had not been perfectly well even at 
the time of fettiog out on the excurlion to Broken Bayj 
had then contraded a fevere pain in his iide, by fleeping 
frequently on the wet ground.. This complaint had in 
the two lad journeys received fo much increafe, that he 
found- 
