Simmonds's colonial magazine and foreign miscellany / edited by P.L. Simmonds

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London : Simmonds and Ward, [1844]-1849
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Vol. 12 No. 46 (October 1847)
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SIMMONDS’S  

COLONIAL MAGAZINE.  

PROGRESS OF DISCOVERY IN AUSTRALIA—THE LATE  

EXPEDITION OF CAPTAIN STURT.  

Under the sanction of His Excellency the Governor, Captain Sturt has  

published in the South Australian journals lengthy account of his late  

expedition into the interior of New Holland. The leading incentive to  

the publication of this elaborate paper appears to have been to explain  

the contrast presented by the late expedition of Sir Thomas Mitchell  

and that of Captain Sturt, and to exhibit some of the natural causes  

which lead to the existence of the luxuriant country discovered by the  

former in the proximity of the almost impenetrable desert traversed by  

the latter.* The present narrative of Captain Sturt’s journey com-  

mences from the starting point. On the 15th August, 1844, his party  

left Adelaide, and proceeded to Gawler-town, his instructions directing  

him to gain the meridian of Mount Arden, or that of 138°, with view  

to determine whether there was any chain of mountains connected with  

the high lands seen by Mr. Eyre to the westward of Lake Torrens, and  

running into the interior from south-west to north-east. He was then  

ordered to push to the westward, and to make the south the constant  

base of his operations. He was prohibited from descending to the  

north coast, but it was left optional to him to fall back on Moreton Bay,  

if forced to the eastward. How far he accomplished his mission he  

leaves to the public to judge; and while regretting that he has dis-  

covered no fine country, states that he was not sent to do so, but  

to solve geographical problem. His own desire and ambition were to  

extend his investigations over the Province of South Australia, as far as  

his instructions would permit, and to strike to the centre of the continent.  

His course into the interior was left open to him by the Secretary of  

State. The basin of Lake Torrens presented an insurmountable ob-  

stacle to northern course and, after much consideration, he started  

up the Darling, with view of tracing the Williorara upwards. The  

expedition left Moorundee on the 21st August, under the charge of Mr.  

Poole, followed on the 24th by Captain Sturt, Mr. Eyre, and Tenbury,  

the native constable at Moorundee. The nights, in the valley of the  

VOL. XII. NO. 46. OCTOBER, 1847.  

 

At vol. vii., p. 257, and vol. viii., p. 257, we gave particulars and extracts from  

other despatches of Captain Sturt.— Editor.  

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