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that which Captain Sturt discovered on his former expedi- 
tion), uniting with the “ Murray” which they examined 
about five miles above the junction. 
The expedition again proceeded down the “ Murray, 
and fell in with another of its tributaries flowing from the 
south east, which Captain Sturt has designated the 
“ Lindesay and on the 8th February the “Murray” was 
found to enter or form a lake, of from fifty to sixty miles in 
length, and from thirty to forty in breadth, lying immedi- 
ately to the eastward of gulf St. Vincent, and extending to 
the southward, to the shore of “ Encounter Bay.” 
Thus has Captain Sturt added largely, and in a highly 
important degree, to the knowledge previously possessed 
of the interior. 
His former expedition ascertained the fate ofthenveis 
Macquarie and Castlereagh, on which occasion he also dis- 
covered a river which, there is every reason to believers, in 
ordinary seasons, of considerable magnitude. 
Should this, as Captain Sturt supposes, prove to be the 
same river as that above-mentioned, as uniting with the 
“ Murray,” the existence of an interior water communica- 
tion for several hundreds of miles, extending from the 
northward of Mount Harris,” down to the southern coast 
of the colony, will have been established. 
It is to be regretted, that circumstances did not permit of 
a more perfect examination of the lake, (which has been 
called “ Alexandria”), as the immediate vicinage of Gulf 
St. Vincent furnishes a just ground of hope that a more 
practicable and useful communication may be discovered in 
that direction, than the channel which leads into “ En- 
counter Bay.” 
