IIUME, HOVEL, AND CUNNINGHAM. 
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Collector to his late Majesty, traversed a con- 
siderahle portion of the interior to the north of 
Bathurst, and, with a laudable zeal, devoted his 
labours to the acquisition of general information, 
as well as to his more immediate professional 
pursuits. In 1827, this gentleman again bent 
his steps towards the northward, and succeeded 
in gaining the 28th parallel of latitude ; and, on 
a subsequent occasion, having taken his de- 
parture from Moreton Bay, he connected his for- 
mer journey with that settlement, and thus con- 
tributed largely to our knowledge of the moun- 
tain country between it and the capital. Mr. 
Cunningham, who, independently of his indi- 
vidual excursions, had not only circumnavigated 
the Australian ContinentwithCapt. King, bnthad 
formed also one of the party with Mr. Oxley, in the 
journeys before noticed, had adopted this gentle- 
man’s opinion with i-egard to the swampy and 
inhospitable character of the distant interior. Its 
depressed appearance from the high ground 
on which Mr. Cunningham subsequently moved, 
tended to confirm this opinion, which was more- 
over daily gaining strength from the reports of 
the natives, who became more frequent in (heir 
intercourse with the whites, and who reported 
