RICH TRACTS IN THE INTERIOR. Uii 
Sydney, a constant intercourse is kept up by 
numerous small craft ; and a communication with 
the interior, by branch roads from the great 
southern line to the coast, would necessarily be 
thrown open, if the more distant parts of it were 
sufficiently peopled. 
Recent surveys have discovered to us rich and 
extensive tracts in the remote interior between 
Jervis Bay and Bateman’s Bay, and southwards 
upon the western slope of the dividing range. 
The account given by Messrs. Hovel and Hume 
is sufficient to prove that every valley they 
crossed was worthy of notice, and that the seve- 
ral rivers they forded were flanked by rich and 
extensive flats. 
The distance of Moneroo Plains, and of the 
Doomot and Morumbidgee Rivers from Sydney, 
alarms the settler, who knows not the value of 
those localities ; but men whose experience has 
taught them to set this obstacle at nought, have 
long depastured their herds on the banks of the 
last two. The fattest cattle that supply the 
Sydney market are fed upon the rich flats, and 
in the grassy valleys of the Morumbidgee ; and 
there are several beautiful farms upon those of 
