THE 
TASMANIAN JOURNAL 
* 
OF 
NATURAL SCIENCE. 
JULY, 1847. 
Art. XVI. Account of the Exploring Expedition into the 
interior of New South Wales. By Sir T. L. Mitchell, 
Surveyor General. 
(From the Hobart Town Courier.) 
We lay before our readers two despatches from Sir Thomas 
Mitchell, recently published at Sydney in a Government Gazette 
Extraordinary, as forming an interesting and important supple¬ 
ment to the previous researches of Dr. Leichardt. The objects 
of these two expeditions, though tending to the same general 
result, were somewhat different in detail. The purpose of Dr. 
Leichardt was to reach Port Essington, and to establish the 
practicability of an overland communication with that embryo 
settlement. This he fully accomplished. The aim of Sir Thomas 
Mitchell was less specific, being rather to “ observe accurately” 
and “ note exactly,” than to push his explorations loosely in 
extent. One more direct object proposed, however, was to 
ascertain the division of the Northern and Southern Waters; 
and in this primary purpose, to use his own words, “ the result 
exceeded his most sanguine expectations.” 
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