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of about seventy miles ; and I hope to find the country in that- 
direction passable for this party in its way homewards. 
I have the honor to be, Sir, 
Your Excellency’s most obedient, humble servant, 
T. L. Mitchell, 
Surveyor-General. 
To his Excellency the Governor 
of New South Wales. 
Art. XVII. Account of the Exploring Expedition from South 
Australia into the interior of New Holland. By Captain 
Sturt. 
(From the South Australian Gazette.) 
The recent publication of Sir Thomas Mitchell s despatches, 
renders an account of the expedition of Captain Sturt of more 
interest, perhaps, at this moment, than it would have been at 
any previous time. The strong contrast these two journeys 
exhibit—the smooth and uninterrupted progress of the one, 
through a smiling country, and the painful efi'orts of the other; 
in a trackless and inhospitable desert; the comparatively tern, 
perate region Sir Thomas Mitchell traversed, and the burning 
fiery tracts over which Captain Sturt wandered; the constant 
prosperity of the first, in the abundance of water, that was 
everywhere found, and the paralysing detention ol the other, at 
one point, for more than six months, from the total failure of that 
vital element on the widely-spread desert into which he had 
advanced ; the pleasurable nature of the service to the Surveyor- 
General of New South Wales, and its ceaseless anxiety to the 
Explorer of the Murray—form, we think, points of difference 
as opposite as black from white, or light from darkness. It i s 
with feelings of pleasure, therefore, that in so early a number of 
our paper for the year 1847, we are enabled to lay before our 
readers such a narrative of Captain Sturt’s Expedition as, we 
trust, will satisfy the public mind, since it has been furnished by 
