BEING A JOURNAL OF THE VOYAGE OF THE “LADY AUGUSTA” STEAMER FROM THE GOOLWA, IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA, TO GANNEWARRA, ABOVE SWAN HILL, VICTORIA; A DISTANCE FROM THE SEA MOUTH OF 1400 MILES. BY ARTHUR KINLOCH, Esq. , CLERK OF THE EXECUTIVE COUNCIL OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA. LONDON: HOPE & CO., 16, GREAT MARLBOROUGH STREET. 1856. BY ARTHUR KINLOCH, Esq. , CLERK OF THE EXECUTIVE COUNCIL OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA. LONDON: HOPE & CO., 16, GREAT MARLBOROUGH STREET. 1856. TO HIS EXCELLENCY SIR HENRY EDWARD

Lest this description of the River Murray should appear in some points to differ from the accounts of other travellers, it may be necessary to observe that the present little work is merely a Journal or daily record of what the writer observed during his voyage up the River, which was at the time considerably flooded, though it had not then attained its highest elevation, which occurs about December. The English reader may also bear in mind that rivers in England are not the scale whereby to est

Enumeration of the quantity of sheep to be shorn in the present year (1853), upon the Rivers Murray and Lachlan, as far as Swan Hill, in the Provinces of South Australia, Victoria, and New South Wales. To this number may be added an unestimated amount of sheep upon the Darling River, amounting certainly, to 17,000; which at a very low calculation will give 460,000 sheep; yielding a supply of wool—at 2 lbs. per sheep, and an average of 250 lbs. weight per bale—of 3,680 bales; or, at a rough estim

Message No. 24, from His Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor to the Legislative Council. Lieutenant-Governor Sir Henry Young has the gratification to announce to the Legislative Council the arrival, at the Goolwa, of the first river-borne wool, the produce of the vast basin of the Murray. In congratulating the Council on this auspicious commencement of the steam navigation and commerce of the great River Murray, the Lieutenant-Governor is happy to state that Captain Cadell’s voyage reached to one

By His Excellency Sir Henry Edward Fox Young, Knight, Lieutenant-Governor of Her Majesty’s Province of South Australia, and Vice-Admiral of the same, &c. &c. ( L S ) H. E. F. Young. Whereas, in order to provide for the interests of future settlers, and the probable course of future settlement along the banks of the now-ascertained navigable waters of the River Murray, it is expedient, that as respects the River Murray, and its Lakes Alexandrina or Victoria and Lake Albert, in Sou