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on whose tracks we got the following day, about two miles to the 
westward of its junction with the Hume. I could not observe 
any impression of horses or cattle to indicate that any one had 
been there; but discovered the marks of horses' hoofs lower 
down the Hume, at a division of its channel, where it forms 
several flat and reedy islands. I made a report of this journey to 
Sir George Gipps on my return to Sydney, but I did not at that 
time forward any chart; I have now, however, the honour of 
enclosing one. 
I should state that the river is navigable along its whole course. 
The flats, which extend to some distance on either side of it, on 
its upper branches are rich in soil, and are better adapted for 
cattle than for sheep. Many fine stations might indeed be formed 
even to the junction of the Delangen, and, as in the case of the 
Murrumbidgee and the Macquarie, I have no doubt the settlers, 
as they want pasturage, will push down to them. I do not, how¬ 
ever, think that any of the country, from the Goulburn to the 
junction of the Murrumbidgee, is available for any purpose. The 
only object gained by me in pursuing this river, was the survey 
of it, and the connection of its higher branches with the lower 
ones, as adding more correct data for a chart. 
STATISTICS OF NORFOLK ISLAND. 
(From the Proceedings of the British Association for the Advancement of Science—Four¬ 
teenth Meeting.— Athenscum, Nos. 884, 885, October, 1844.) 
September 26, 1844. 
“ On the Physical Character and Geology of Norfolk Island," 
by Captain Maconoehie, R, N., K.H.—The group, of which 
Norfolk Island is the principal, is situate in lat. 29° 2 S., and 
168° 2' E. long., 900 miles E.N.E. of Sydney, and 1,350 N.E. 
from Cape Pillar in Van Diemen's Land. Norfolk and Phillip 
Islands, the largest of the group, are about six miles distant from 
each other; about a dozen others, the Nepean and Bird Islands, 
are little more than dry rocks distributed about them. Norfolk 
Island is not quite five miles long, with a medium breadth of 
about 2.] miles ; and its superficies is said to be 8,960 acres ; its 
