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 and energetic, suitable to the purpose and magnitude of the undertaking.

The prospects of the interior of the colony are also bright, as recent accounts bear out all our former remarks thereon, and prove that the principle of advancement is equally active amongst the settlers and late purchasers of the rich lands to be found in every district, which are daily becoming attainable, and made eligible for settling on, by being properly and particularly described, surveyed, and put up for sale by an active and energetic system in the surveying department.

We cannot conclude without a few remarks, and a strong appeal to the sympathies of the mother country, to incite them to forward an undertaking which they, as a nation, have ever been most forward in, viz., that of discovery; and if, indeed, the importance of such a matter in a political point of view, and which we shall endeavour to explain, was lost sight of,—humanity, which has never fallen on negligent or deaf ears amid the British public, now loudly calls that this expedition should be immediately undertaken—humanity for Leichardt and his followers; for, until we have proof to the contrary, who can say but that this indefatigable but unfortunate explorer, with those brave and hardy men who accompanied him, may still live amongst the natives of those wild regions which he, with indomitable courage, so oft attempted to explore, deprived, alas! of the means of returning to his