State Library of NSW
I have already mentioned that in the carrying of supplies lies the great difficulty of examining the interior of Australia [&?] [indecipherable] to the features of the unexplored country [indecipherable ] the [ amount? ] of difficulty. These features may be divided generally into water courses, mountain ridges [&?] plains [&?] each specifically as follows. 1st the water courses may present falls, cascades, or rapids, lakes shoals or marches [ &? ] even [ masses? ] of drift wood rending it necessary for the explorers to make innumerable [ indecipherable ] or [ indeciperable ] places, occasio- nal detours [&?] frequent halts. 2nd The [mountain?] ridges may dip [ ] [&?] the [intervening?] valleys [ ] as to be almost or wholly unpassable [&?] frequent fissures may occurr [ insurmount ? ] [ able? ] in any other way than by [ tracing ? ] them to their termination.
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