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Updated: June 21, 2025
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.
In their progress along the river they came to fine open downs and plains, which, with the singularly bad taste, which still, unfortunately, holds sway, Currie immediately named after the then Governor, "Brisbane Downs;" although but a short time before they had learnt from the aborigines the native name of Monaroo.
Fortunately, in this instance, Monaroo has been preserved, and Brisbane Downs forgotten. On the 6th June they crossed the river, and found the open country still stretching south, bounded to the west by the snowy mountains they had formerly seen, and to the east by a range that they took to be the coast range.
He was a bushman, rough and weather-beaten, with only one peculiarity. The quart pot which he slung to his belt would hold half a gallon of tea, while other pots only held a quart, and that was the reason why he was known all the way from Monaroo to Adelaide as "Jack of the Quart Pot."
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