The Grass In This Vale Is Of A Good
Quality, And Very Abundant; And A Rivulet Of Fine Water Runs Along It
From The Eastward, Which Unites Itself At The Western Extremity Of The
Vale With Another Rivulet, Containing Still More Water.
The junction of
these two streams forms a very fine river, now called by the governor
Cox's River; which
Takes its course, as has since been re-ascertained,
through the Prince Regent's Glen, and empties itself into the River
Nepean; and it is conjectured from the nature of the country through
which it passes, that it must be one of the principal causes of the
floods which have been occasionally felt on the low banks of the River
Hawkesbury, into which the Nepean discharges itself. The Vale of Clwyd
from the base of Mount York, extends six miles in a westerly direction,
and has its termination at Cox's River. Westward of this river the
country again becomes hilly, but is generally open, forest land, and
very good pasturage. Three miles to the westward of the Vale of Clwyd,
Messrs. Blaxland, Wentworth, and Lawson, had formerly terminated their
excursion; and when the various difficulties are considered which they
had to contend with, especially until they had effected the descent from
Mount York, to which place they were obliged to pass through a thick
brushwood, where they were under the necessity of cutting a passage for
their baggage horses, the severity of which labour had seriously affected
their healths - their patient endurance of such fatigue cannot fail to
excite much surprise and admiration.
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