29 degrees 37 minutes S.and in E.
long.

145 degrees 33 minutes, and traced it down for about sixty-six miles in a direct line to the S.W.If I might hazard an opinion from appearance, to whatever part of the interior it leads, its source must be far to the N.E.or N.The capacity of its channel, and the terrific floods that must sometimes rage in it, would argue that it is influenced by tropical rains, which alone would cause such floods.

It is likely that it seldom arrives at so reduced a state as that in which we found it, and that, generally speaking, it has a sufficient depth of water for the purposes of inland navigation: in such case its future importance cannot be questioned, since it most probably receives the chief streams falling westerly from the coast ranges.

But, with every anticipation of the benefit that may at some time or other be derived from this remarkable and central stream, it is incumbent on me to state that the country, through which it flows, holds out but little prospect of advantage.

Certainly the portion we know of it, is far from encouraging.