Such is the country in Argyleshire on either side of the Lachlan, where that river crosses the great southern road near Mr.Hume's station; such also are many parts of Goulburn and the whole extent of country lying between Underaliga and the Morumbidgee River.

The barren tracts, on the other hand, may be said to occupy the central spaces between all the principal streams.

With regard to the proportion that these different kinds of country bear to each other, there can be no doubt of the undue preponderance of the last over the first two; but there are nevertheless many extensive available tracts in every part of the colony.
MEANS OF INLAND TRANSPORT.
The greatest disadvantage under which New South Wales labours, is the want of means for conveying inland produce to the market, or to the coast.

The Blue Mountains are in this respect a serious bar to the internal prosperity of the colony.

By this time, however, a magnificent road will have been completed across them to the westward, over parts of which I travelled in 1831.