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2.1 GOVERNOR MACQUARIE TO EARL BATHURST. (Despatch marked “No. 2 of 1814”, per ship Earl Spencer, viâ Ceylon; acknowledged by Earl Bathurst, 4th December, 1815.) Sydney, New South Wales, 19th January, 1814. My Lord, 1. It being my Intention. . . . . . . . 12. The Drought and Consequent Deficiency in Grass and Water for the Cattle, which I have already been obliged to State to Your Lordship in some of the foregoing passages, led me to make an Effort at the discovering of some Track of Country where possibly Nature might be more bountiful than in the present Circumscribed Limits of this Colony; and in furtherance of this object, I some Weeks ago gave Instructions {15} to Mr. Evans, one of the Deputy Surveyors of Land, attended by a few men and provided with the Necessary Accommodations for a two Months’ Tour, to proceed in the Attempt of Effecting a Passage over the great Range of Mountains, Called here “The blue Mountains”, and to discover what Description of Country lay to the Westward of them. The Consequence, I am most happy to Inform Your Lordship, has been that at a distance of 150 Miles Mr. Evans has discovered a beautiful and Champain Country of very Considerable Extent and great Fertility, thro’ which a River of large Size, abounding in large and very fine Fish, takes a Westward Course. Mr. Evans has brought with him some Specimens of the Timbers, Stones and Minerals, which he happened to fall in with, but I am not yet enabled to state what Importance may be attached to them, tho’ I am inclined to think that some of them may prove of very great value. Neither am I enabled from the very recent return of Mr. Evans to give Your Lordship at this time a more minute account of the Success which has attended this Tour of Discovery. I am however fully persuaded that this hitherto unexplored Region will at no distant period prove a Source of Infinite Benefit to this Colony.
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