EXPEDITION 
DOWN THE 
MORUMBIDGEE AND MURRAY RIVERS, 
In 1829, 1830, and 1831. 
CHAPTER I. 
INTRODUCTORY. 
Remarks on the results of the former expedition — The fitting out of 
another determined on — Its objects — Provisions, accoutrements, 
and retinue — Paper furnished by Captain Kent — Causes that 
have prevented the earlier appearance of the present work. 
The expedition of which we have just detailed the pro- 
ceedings was so far satisfactory in its results, that it not 
only set at rest the hypothesis of the existence of an internal 
shoal sea in southern Australia, and ascertained the actual 
termination of the rivers it had been directed to trace, but 
also added very largely to our knowledge of the country con- 
siderably to the westward of former discoveries. And although 
no land had been traversed of a fertile description of suffi- 
cient extent to invite the settler, the fact of a large river such 
as the Darling lying at the back of our almost intertropical 
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