Such evidently was the opinion of her Majesty's Government at the time, for in accordance with it, in the year 1835, Sir Thomas Mitchell, the Surveyor-General of the colony of New South Wales, was directed to lead an expedition into the interior, to solve the question, by tracing the further course of the Darling.

This officer left Sydney in May, 1835, and pushing to the N.W.gradually descended to the low country on which the Macquarie river all but terminates its short course.

In due time he gained the Bogan river (the New Year's Creek of my first expedition, and so called by my friend, Mr.Hamilton Hume, who accompanied me as my assistant, because he crossed it on that day), and tracing it downwards to the N.W., Sir Thomas Mitchell ultimately gained the banks of the Darling, where I had before been upon it, in latitude 30 degrees.

He then traced it downwards to the W.S.W {S.S.W.

in published text} to latitude 32 degrees 26 seconds.