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GIPPS’ LAND. 
This valuable territory was discovered in the early part of 
1841, by Count Streleski. The main object which the traveller 
liad in view while in New South Wales was,— 
1st. To trace, from latitude 29° 30' to latitude 39° 30', th c 
course of the great range or chain of mountains dividing the 
eastern and the western waters. 
2nd. To examine the adjacent country extending on u n 
average 100 miles from the sea-shore. 
3rd. To ascertain the mincralogical and geognostic character 
of the country, and contrive to collect such materials as a con¬ 
templated geological chart required. 
Three thousand miles on foot over that area put him in pos¬ 
session of the leading and characteristic features of the rango, 
with all the vertical sections which were needed tor their 
illustration. Some valuable meteorological and magnetic in¬ 
tensity observations have been secured too, and the line of 
perpetual snow determined. 
The tracing of the dividing range obliged the traveller to 
carry his own survey, both by observations of the latitude and 
longitude, and by trigonometrical observations, from the Mur- 
rumbidgee, where the Colonial survey ceases, down to Wilson’s 
Promontory. He was finally led through a country hitherto 
untrodden by white men, to the discovery of Gipps’ Land, its 
beautiful lake, its eight rivers, its luxurious pastures, and pic¬ 
turesque scenery. 
By this survey thc unbroken chain of mountains was ex¬ 
plored, the sources of thc Murrumbidgee, thc Hume or Murray 
and ten other rivers, were traced, and the situation of Lake 
Omeo determined. 
Thc researches which brought the traveller to Van Diemen’s 
Land are but the continuation of those carried on in New South 
Wales; as the examination of Wilson’s Promontory with that 
of thc islands in Bass’s Straits seems to identify the two countries 
both in their mirieralogieal and geognostic character. 
The following narrative of thc most interesting part of this 
journey, compiled by Mr. Gisborne from the notes of Count 
Streleski, appeared some months ago in the jP ort Phillip 
Herald:— 
The general objects of thc expedition were to determine the 
course of thc range turning thc eastern and western waters, and 
to complete a geognostic survey of the country. 
