Journals of Two Expeditions into the Interior of New South Wales by John Oxley
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setting out immediately will not allow me to revise or correct it.
"I have the honour to remain, with the greatest respect, Your excellency's most obedient and humble servant, (Signed), J. OXLEY, Surveyor General." To His Excellency, Governor Macquarie, etc., etc., etc. * * * * * APPENDIX. PART II. No. IV. DIARY OF MR. EVANS, DEPUTY SURVEYOR GENERAL, FROM THE 8TH, TO THE 18TH OF JULY 1818. Wednesday, July 8.--Left Mount Harris about nine o'clock. For six miles the country tolerably good; afterwards, to the end of my day's journey, it was alternately acacia pendula scrubs, and cypress brushes; the soil light, and full of holes; abundance of water, but, latterly, no grass. In the evening halted on the bank of a gully, having gone about twelve miles. Mount Harris bearing 8. 35. W. |
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