APPENDIX NO, 11. 
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since the last communication for the information of His 
Excellency the Governor, until such time as I shall have it 
in my power to give in a more detailed reported. 
“ On the 7th of January, agreeably to the arrangements 
which had been made, I proceeded down the Morumbidgee 
in the whale boat, with a complemen t of six hands, inde- 
pendent of myself and Mr. M'Leay, holding the skiff in 
tow. The river, for several days, kept a general W. S. W. 
course ; it altered little in appearance, nor did any material 
change take place in the country upon its banks. The al- 
luvial flats had occasionally an increased breadth on either 
side of it, but the line of reeds was no where so extensive 
as from previous appearances I had been led to expect. 
About twelve miles from the depot, we passed a large creek 
junction from the N. E. which, from its locality and fiom 
the circumstance of my having been upon it in the direc- 
tion of them, I cannot but conclude originates in the 
marshes of the Lachlan. 
On the 11th, the Morumbidgee became much encum- 
bered with fallen timber, and its current was at times so 
rapid that I was under considerable apprehension for the 
safety of the boats. The skiff had been upset on the 8th, 
and, although I could not anticipate such an accident to 
the large boat, I feared she would receive some more serious 
and irremediable injury. On the 14th, these difficulties 
increased upon us. — The channel of the river became 
more contracted, and its current more impetuous. We 
had no sooner cleared one reach, than fresh and apparently 
insurmountable dangers presented themselves to us in the 
next. I really feared that every precaution would have 
proved unavailing against such multiplied embarrassments. 
