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Mr. Kennedy’s survey of the River Victoria.
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Whilst I was endeavouring to penetrate1 into the heart of the Australian Continent, there were two other Expeditions of Discovery engaged in exploring the country to the eastward2 of me. Dr. Leichhardt, an account of whose successful and enterprising journey from Moreton Bay to Port Essington is already before the public, was keeping the high lands at no great distance from the coast, and Sir Thomas Mitchell, the Surveyor-General of New South Wales, was traversing the more depressed3 interior, between my own and Dr. Leichhardt’s tracks. The distance at which Dr. Leichhardt passed the extreme westerly point gained by me was 600 geographical4 miles, and his distance from my extreme easterly one was 420 miles; Sir Thomas Mitchell’s distance from my extreme west, being about 380 miles, and that from my last position, (on Cooper’s Creek5), about 260. He had been traversing a country of great richness and fertility, a country, indeed, such as he had never before seen, and in a despatch6 addressed to the Governor of New South Wales, thus describes it and the river he discovered on the occasion:—
“On ascending7 the range early next morning, I saw open downs and plains with a line of river in the midst, the whole extending to the N.N.W., as far as the horizon. Following down the little stream from the valley in which I had passed the night, I soon reached the open country, and during ten successive days I pursued the course of that river, through the same sort of country, each day as far as my horse could carry me, and in the same direction again approaching the Tropic of Capricorn. In some parts the river formed splendid reaches, as broad and important as the river Murray; in others it spread into four or five branches, some of them several miles apart. But the whole country is better watered than any part of Australia I have seen, by numerous tributaries
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阻碍,妨碍,阻止( impede的第三人称单数 ) | |
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obstructs
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abruptly
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imperative
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compliance
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