GREGORY'S EXPEDITION.
After failing in his principal object of tracing Dr. Leiehhardt's route, Mr. Gregory has performed the curious feat of connecting the discoveries of four previous explorers. Starting down the valley of the Victoria River, the last discovery of Sir Thomas Mitchell, he followed its further course so far as traced by Mr. Kennedy * under orders of Sir T. Mitchell. Proceeding onward through country previously untrodden, he found that, as had been expected, the Victoria was identical with a considerable watercourse dicovered by Captain Sturt, in the midst of deserts, and named by him Cooper's Creek. Pursuing now for some distance the track of Sturt, he was apparently more fortunate in not losing sight of the onward course of the river, and by its means crossed dry and desert plains, which Sturt first traversed on a course rising at right-angles and under the greatest difficulties. Eventually Gregory reached the shores of Lake Torrens; and was again successful in finding a firm spit of land some miles broad, extending through the soft briny mud to the opposite shore, where he at last closed with Mount Hopeless, the furthest point of Mr. Eyre's route.
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Colonist, Issue 88, 24 August 1858, Page 4
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GREGORY'S EXPEDITION.
Colonist, Issue 88, 24 August 1858, Page 4
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