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14 following, succeeded in reaching the Oakover, the Northern branch of the DeGrey River, by the assistance of camels. It was reserved for John Forrest to cross the centre of the Colony from the Murchison, and thence to the Northern telegraph line of South Australia, with the ordinary equipment of a bushman.

The journals, reports, and maps of the explorers whose names have been recorded, and which are preserved in the office of the Surveyor General, with those of Mr. H. Y. L. Brown, Government Geologist from 1870 to 1873, furnish materials for the description of the Colony, both geographical and physical, as well as for the account of discovery already given; all of which might be enlarged with much advantage.