CALEY'S ATTEMPT.
A Mr.Caley is said to have been the first who attempted to scale the Blue Mountains: but he did not long persevere in struggling with difficulties too great for ordinary resolution to overcome.

It appears that he retraced his steps, after having penetrated about sixteen miles into their dark and precipitous recesses; and a heap of stones, which the traveller passes about that distance from Erne Ford, on the road to Bathurst, marks the extreme point reached by the first expedition to the westward of the Nepean river.
LIEUT.

LAWSON'S EXPEDITION.
Shortly after the failure of this expedition, the sad effects of a long protracted drought called forth a more general spirit of enterprise and exertion among the settlers; and Mr.Oxley makes honorable mention of the perseverance and resolution with which Lieut.

Lawson, of the 104th regiment, accompanied by Messrs.

Blaxland and Wentworth, conducted an expedition into the Blue Mountains.