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a matter of much interest and importance to de- 
termine the most favourable point from which to 
explore them. My own experience has pointed out 
the dreadful nature of the southern coast, and the 
very great and almost insuperable difficulties that 
beset the traveller at the very commencement — in 
his efforts even to establish a single depot from which 
to enter upon his researches. The northern coast 
may, probably, afford greater facilities, but in a 
tropical climate, where the heat and other circum- 
stances render ordinary difficulties and impediments 
still more embarrassing and dangerous, it is a matter 
of deep moment that the expedition for interior 
exploration should commence at the right point, 
and this can only be ascertained by a previous 
examination. 
I have myself always been most anxious to 
attempt to cross from Moreton Bay on the N. E. 
coast to Port Essington on the N. W. I believe 
that this journey is quite practicable, and I have no 
doubt that if judiciously conducted, and the country 
to the south of the line of route always examined, as 
far as that could be done, it would completely develop, 
in connection with what is already known, the cha- 
racter and formation of Australia, and would at 
once point out the most proper place from which 
subsequent expeditions ought to start in order 
finally to accomplish the passage across its interior— 
from the north to the south. 
