York
it leads towards Bathurst, by a kind of Australian Sim-plon,
constructed by Sir T. Mitchell. From Bathurst it leads to Wellington
Valley, where it stops.
The
third road leads from Sydney, in the direction of the colony of
Victoria. Mackenzie describes this road as consisting of gum-trees and
public-houses; the grass for your horse improving as the comfort for
yourself becomes less. It passes through Liverpool, Campbelltown,
Berrima, Goulburn, and Tass, which is about 200 miles from Sydney. It
crosses several rivers, the first of which is the Murrumbidgee, at
Gun-degai, 270 miles from Sydney. The next is the Hume River, 130 miles
further, or 400 miles from Sydney. Fifty miles beyond the Hume, the
road crosses the Ovens, and ninety miles beyond this the Goulburn
River. From hence to Melbourne is sixty-five miles. With the exception
of these roads there are no means of internal transit whatever, though
wool has to be brought clown in bullock-drays from immense distances,
in order to reach the port of shipment.
