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RKSULT OF THE EXPEDITION. 
satisfactory, however, as the discoveries may as yet be con- 
sidered in a commercial point of view, the objects for which 
the expedition had been fitted out were happily attained. 
Tlie marsh it had been directed to examine, was traversed on 
every side, and the rivers it had been ordered to trace, were 
followed down to their terminations to a distance far beyond 
where they had ceased to exist as living streams. To many 
who may cast their eyes over the accompanying chart, the 
extent of newly discovered country may appear trifling ; 
but when they are told, that there is not a mile of that 
ground that was not traversed over and over again, either 
by Mr. Hume or by myself, that we wandered over upwards 
of 600 miles more than the main body of the expedition, 
on different occasions, in our constant and anxious search 
for water, and that we seldom dismounted from our horses, 
until long after sunset, they will acknowledge the difficulties 
with which we had to contend, and will make a generous 
allowance for them ; for, however unsuccessful in some 
respects the expedition may have been, it accomplished as 
much, it is to be hoped, as under such trying circum- 
stances could have been accomplished. It now only re- 
mains for me to sum up the result of my own observations, 
and to point out to the reader, how far the actual state of 
the interior, has been found to correspond with the opinions 
that were entertained of it. 
I have already stated, in the introduction to this work, that 
the general impression on the minds of those best qualified to 
judge was, that the western streams discharged themselves 
