An Historical and Statistical Account of the New South Wales Volume 2; From the Founding of the Colony in 1788 to the Present Day (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1875 Excerpt: ... the same character as that which I had passed over on the previous day between Stroud and Gloucester--hill and dale, with occasional flats and good pasture. On this part of the route the Barrington River is crossed twice. It contains a large body of water, reaching nearly to the saddle-girth, and flows with a rapid current. The Barrington rises in the mountainous country towards the sources of William's River. It flows along the base of the range called the Buccans to the westward, and receives the Gloucester River at the northern termination of that range, a mile or two below the Company's station. Still lower down it is joined by the Bowman River; and on all these rivers I ascertained that there was a considerable, although by no means a large, extent of alluvial land, well adapted for the settlement of an agricultural population. The Barrington is one of the principal tributaries of the Manning. It is always running, although subject, like all Australian rivers, to occasional floods. The black fellow told me that the native name, either of it or of the Gloucester (for I could not ascertain which he meant) was Wittuck, and that of the Manning, Broey-gangallinba. But I could not ascertain afterwards that the natives of the Manning district knew the river by that name, and was told they had various names for it at different parts of its course. After crossing the Barrington a second time we met two black fellows on foot, and shortly afterwards a third, a servant of the Company, on horseback. From the two pedestrians, Watty, my guide, ascertained that there had been a fight among the aborigines on the Manning River, in which one man had been killed. In describing the fray, and especially the multitude of spears that had been thrown upon the occasion, the bla...