Three expeditions into the interior of eastern Australia; with descriptions of the recently explored region of Australia Felix, and of the present colony of New South Wales . ious determination on his part, to quit the deserts andseek the continuation of tlie south-eastern mountain chains ; lie has thus founda country of running waters and ])erpetu;il verdure. Nor will it be long-before these discoveries are taken advantage of; the energy and enterpriseof the British in Australia rival the bold spirit of the Far West. Alreadythere is a .post established I)etween the new town of Melbourne, in P
Three expeditions into the interior of eastern Australia; with descriptions of the recently explored region of Australia Felix, and of the present colony of New South Wales . ious determination on his part, to quit the deserts andseek the continuation of tlie south-eastern mountain chains ; lie has thus founda country of running waters and ])erpetu;il verdure. Nor will it be long-before these discoveries are taken advantage of; the energy and enterpriseof the British in Australia rival the bold spirit of the Far West. Alreadythere is a .post established I)etween the new town of Melbourne, in PortPhillip, and Sy<lney, a distance of 600 miles; and, what is still moreremarkable, a herd of cattle (about 060 head) from Yass plains, arrived inApril last at Adelaide, the capital of Soutii Australia, in thu gulph of , distant about 700 miles from the frontiers of the colony of NewSouth Wales.—Alhemcum, Glh Oct. 1838. THREE EXPEDITIONS IVTO THE INTERIOR Ol EASTERN AUSTRALIA; WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF THE RECENTLY EXPLORED REGION OF AUSTRALIA FELIX, AND OF THE PRESENT COLONY OF NEW SOUTH WALES: BY MAJOR T. L. MITCHELL, cS: SECOND EDITION, CAREFULLY REVISED. IN TWO L LONDON:T. & W. BOONE, NEW BOND STREET. MDCCCXXXIX. >A\ TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE LOED GLENELG, HER majestys PRINCIPAL SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE COLONIES, &C. &C. &C. THIS WORK IS WITH PERMISSION e^s BY HIS lordships VERY OBEDIENT >?DC -c g| AND MOST HUMBLE SERVANT, ^ T. L. MITCHELL. in CM HZ ISX A ^ ^^P4Q a PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION. The following Journals were written at the close of manya laborious day, when the energies both of mind and bodywere almost exhausted by long continued toil. The authortrusts that this circumstance will account for, and palliate,some of the defects which may be discovered in his as he is of the deficiencies of his work, he never-theless hopes that the reader will not pronounce it to bewholly devoid of i
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