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MAJOR MITClIELI.’s REPORT. 
" The results of my progress thus far were sufficient, I 
considered, to prove that the division of the waters falling 
towards the northern and southern shores of Australia is 
not, as has been supposed, in the direction of the Liverpool 
and Warrabangle range, but extends between Cape Byron 
on the eastern shore, towards Dick Hartog’s Island on the 
west ; the greater elongation of this country being between 
these points, and intermediate between the lines of its 
northern and southern coasts. The basin of the streams I 
have been upon must be bounded on the north by this 
dividing ground or water-shed, and although no rise was 
perceptible in the northern horizon, the river was tra- 
versed by several rocky dykes, over which it fell south- 
ward ; their direction being oblique to the course, and 
nearly parallel to this division of the waters. I beg leave 
to state, that I should not feel certain on this point without 
having seen more, were it not evident from Mr. Cunning- 
ham’s observations, made on crossing this division on his 
way to Moreton Bay. Mr. Cunningham, on crossing the 
head of this river, nearly in the same latitude, but much 
nearer its sources, found the height of its bed above the 
sea to be 840 feet j at about forty-five miles further north- 
ward the ground rose to upwards of 1700 feet, but imme- 
diately beyond, he reached a river flowing north-west, the 
height of which was only 1400 feet above the sea. He 
had thus crossed this dividing higher ground, between the 
parallels of 29'’ and 28°. It appears, therefore, that all the 
interior rivers we know of to the northward of the Morum- 
