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major Mitchell’s report. 
The following official report of Major Mitchell will suffi- 
ciently point out the incorrectness of the preceding state- 
ment. It is most probable thatBarber merely told thatwhich 
he had heard from the natives, and that having a more than 
ordinary share of cunning, he made up a story upon their 
vague and uncertain accounts, in hopes that it would bene- 
fit him, as in truth it did. 
“ Bullabalakit, on the River Nammoy, 
in lat. 300 33 ' 21" S., long. 149° SC/ 20" E. 
23d December, 1831. 
“ Sir, 
“ I have the honour to state, for the information of His 
Excellency the Governor, the progress I have made in 
exploring the course of the interior waters to the northward 
of the Colony, with reference to the letter which I had the 
honour to address to Col. Lindesay, on this subject, on the 
19th ult. 
“On crossing Liverpool Range my object was to proceed 
northward, so as to avoid the plains and head the streams 
which water them, and avoiding also the mountain ranges 
on the east. 
“ I arrived accordingly, by a tolerably straight and level 
line, at Walamoul, on Peel’s River ; this place (a cattle 
station of Mr, Brown) being nearly due north from the 
common pass across Liverpool Range, and about a mile- 
