Their efforts were successful: and the objects of their enterprise would have been completely attained, but for the failure of their provisions at a moment when their view of the distant interior was such as to convince them that they had overcome the most formidable obstacles to their advance, and that in their further progress few impediments would have presented themselves.
MR.

EVANS' DISCOVERIES.
The success of this undertaking induced Governor Macquarie to further the prosecution of inland discovery, and of attempts to ascertain the nature of the country of which Mr.Lawson only obtained a glimpse.

An expedition was accordingly dispatched under Mr.Evans, the Deputy Surveyor-General, to follow the route taken by the former one, and to penetrate as far as practicable into the western interior.

The result was the discovery of the Macquarie river, and of Bathurst Plains.

The report of Mr.Evans was so favourable, that orders were immediately issued for the construction of a line of road across the mountains.