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are to rendezvous as soon as possible. Mr. Maxwell, the 
superintendant, will furnish you with well-trained bullocks, 
and afford you all the assistance you may require in arranging 
every thing for your departure from that station. 
4. After you shall have completed all your arrangements, you are 
to lose no time in finally departing from Wellington Valley 
in prosecution of the immediate objects of the expedition. 
5. You are first to proceed to Mount Harris, where you are to 
form a temporary depot, by means of which you will have 
an opportunity of more readily communicating with Mr. 
Maxwell. 
6. You are then to endeavour to determine the fate of the Mac- 
quarie River, by tracing it as far as possible beyond the 
point to which Mr. Oxley went, and by pushing westward, 
you are to ascertain if there be any high lands in that direc- 
tion, 'or if the country be, as it is supposed, an unbroken 
level and under water. If you should fail in those objects, 
you will traverse the plains lying behind our north-west 
boundaries, with a view to skirt any waters by which you 
may have been checked to the westward ; and if you should 
succeed in skirting them, you are to explore the country 
westward and southward as far as possible, endeavouring to 
discover the Macquarie beyond the marsh of Mr. Oxley, and 
following it to its mouth if at all practicable. 
7. There is some reason to believe that the over-flowing of the 
Macquarie when visited by Mr. Oxley, was occasioned 
by heavy rains falling in the mountains to the eastward, 
and that as you are to visit the same spot at a diflTerent 
season of the year, you may escape such embarrassment ; 
but although you should get beyond the point at which 
