But I am aware that Mr.Oxley performed all that enterprise, and perseverance, and talent could have performed, and that it would have been impracticable in him to have attempted to force its marshes in the state in which he found them.
It was from his want of knowledge of their nature and extent, that he inferred the swampy and inhospitable character of the more remote country, a state in which subsequent investigation has found it not to be.

The marsh of the Macquarie is nothing more than an ordinary marsh or swamp in another country.

However large a space it covers, it is no more than a concavity or basin for the reception of the waters of the river itself, nor has it any influence whatever on the country to the westward of it, in respect to inundation; the general features of the latter being a regular alternation of plain and brush.

These facts are in themselves sufficient to give a fresh interest to the interior of the Australian continent, and to increase its importance.
CAPT.

KING'S OPINIONS.
With respect to that part of its coast at which the rivers falling from the eastern mountains, discharge themselves, it is a question of very great doubt.