Excerpt from Landsborough's Exploration of Australia: From Carpentaria to Melbourne, With Especial Reference to the Settlement of Available Country This little volume was chiefly dictated, with the help of materials recorded in the log-book of the journey, by Mr. Landsborough himself. While the work relieved the tedium of a four months voyage to Australia, it was thought possible that the result might interest a certain section of the English public, and highly probable, that it would prove serviceable to the migratory portion of the Australian public, in affording simple and trustworthy information in reference to one of their most promising fields of enterprise. Embracing, as it does, a topic of scientific importance, the publication has been additionally prompted by the consideration that, however barren of sensational incidents an Australian "bush" journey necessarily is, the simple record of the exploration of a hitherto trackless region ought not to lie buried in oblivion. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.