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—In pursuance of the instructions originally given to the Surveyor General, the South-Western portion of the Colony was, for administrative purposes, divided into counties or districts, the limits of which were never accurately defined, hut the names of which are still in use. Commencing from the North of the Moore River, there are
 * Melbourne, Glenelg, Grey, Carnarvon,
 * Twiss, Victoria, Durham, Lansdown,
 * Perth, York, Howick, Beaufort,
 * Wellington, Wicklow, Peel,
 * Sussex, Nelson, Goderich, Hay,
 * Lanark, Stirling, Plantagenet, Kent.