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The young explorer was thus singularly fortunate in having his name connected with the discovery of two of the most important rivers in Australia. In the trip just narrated he and his companion, Hovell, had arrested the hasty conclusion that was being formed as to the aridity of the interior.
The opinion I have expressed, and which is founded on my personal experience, that the rivers crossed by Messrs. Hovell and Hume had already united above me, was strengthened by the capacity of the stream we had just discovered. It had a medium width of 350 feet, with a depth of from twelve to twenty.
The time had now come for the completion of the work commenced by Hume and Hovell sixteen years before, namely, the full exploration of the south-east corner of Australia. In 1840, McMillan, the manager of a station near the Snowy Mountains, the property of Messrs. Buckler and M'Allister, started on a search for country in company with two companions, Messrs.
Then Sir Thomas Brisbane thought of landing a party of prisoners near Wilson's Promontory, and by offer of a free pardon and a land grant, to find their way back to Sydney. Mr. Hume, the first Australian-born explorer, and Mr. Hovell, took a party from Lake George, at that time the most outside station, to Western Port, and they were the first to see the Australian Alps.
Hume states that he had even much difficulty in obtaining tickets-of-leave for the men, and an order to select 1,200 acres of land for himself. Mr. Hovell was a retired shipmaster, who had been for some time settled in Australia. Each of the leaders brought with them three men, so that the strength of the expedition was eight men in all.
The great drought of 1813 The development of country by stocking Blaxland, Lawson, and Wentworth cross the Blue Mountains Reach the head of coast waters and return Surveyor Evans sent out Crosses the watershed and finds the Macquarie River Construction of road over the range Settlement of Bathurst Visit of Governor Macquarie Second expedition under Evans Discovery of the Lachlan River Surveyor-General Oxley explores the Lachlan Finds the river terminates in swamps Returns by the Macquarie His opinion of the interior Second expedition down the Macquarie Disappointment again Evans finds the Castlereagh Liverpool Plains discovered Oxley descends the range and finds Port Macquarie Returns to Newcastle-Currie and Ovens cross the Morumbidgee Brisbane Downs and Monaroo Hume and Hovell cross to Port Phillip Success of the expedition.
This river is the same found by Hovell and Hume, Sturt's name for it having been adopted.
Hovell had now to confess that the place he had formerly seen was not Western Port, and he went off in search of the fine country he had previously seen, but came back disappointed. The settlement struggled onward for about a year, and was then withdrawn. It is not easy to explain in a few words why they abandoned their dwellings and the land they had begun to cultivate.
He had really been at Geelong Harbour, but was all that distance astray in his reckoning. Induced by his report, the Government sent an expedition under Captain Wright to form a settlement at Western Port. Hovell went with him to give the benefit of his experience.
Hume and Hovell.# The southern coasts of the district now called Victoria had been carefully explored by Flinders and other sailors, but the country which lay behind these coasts was quite unknown.
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