ugh not worth inserting here, contained some
tolerable allusions to the situation of the parties, and the novelty of a
stage-representation in New South Wales.

Broken Bay, which was supposed to be completely explored, became again an
object of research. On the sixth instant, the governor, accompanied by a
large party in two boats, proceeded thither. Here they again wandered over
piles of mis-shapen desolation, contemplating scenes of wild solitude,
whose unvarying appearance renders them incapable of affording either
novelty or gratification. But when they had given over the hope of
farther discovery, by pursuing the windings of an inlet, which, from
its appearance, was supposed to be a short creek, they suddenly found
themselves at the entrance of a fresh water river, up which they proceeded
twenty miles, in a westerly direction; and would have farther prosecuted
their research, had not a failure of provisions obliged them to return.
This river they described to be of considerable breadth, and of great
depth; but its banks had hitherto presented nothing better than a
counterpart of the rocks and precipices which surround Broken Bay.

June, 1789. A second expedition, to ascertain its course, was undertaken
by his excellency, who now penetrated (measuring by the bed of the river)
between 60 and 70 miles, when the farther progress of the boats was stopped
by a fall. The water in every part was found to be fresh and good. Of the
adjoining country, the opinions of those who had inspected it (of which
number I was not) were so various, that I shall decline to record them.
Some saw a rich and beautiful country; and others were so unfortunate as to
discover little else than large tracts of low land, covered with reeds, and
rank with the inundations of the stream, by which they had been recently
covered. All parties, however, agreed, that the rocky, impenetrable
country, seen on the first excursion, had ended nearly about the place
whence the boats had then turned back. Close to the fall stands a very
beautiful hill, which our adventurers mounted, and enjoyed from it an
extensive prospect. Potatoes, maize, and garden seeds of various kinds
were put into the earth, by the governor's order, on different parts
of Richmond-hill, which was announced to be its name. The latitude of
Richmond-hill, as observed by captain Hunter, was settled at 33 degrees 36
minutes south.

Here also the river received the name of Hawkesbury, in honou