_Lady Augusta._ Wm. Davidson, Master. Wm. Webb, Chief Officer. R. Napier, Engineer. Thomas Nevin, Seaman. Henry Petrie, ditto. Robert Robson, Stoker. Evan Thomas, ditto. Wm. Cruise Teague,[1] Stoker. Lewis Chandler, Chief Steward. John McAulay, Second Steward. Jemy, Native of China. Wm. Gylmour, Cook. _Eureka._ Edmund Robertson, Master. J. H. Copeland, Chief Officer (a native of New York). John Nelson, Purser (native of New South Wales). Jimmy (South Sea Islander). Tee Harry (South Sea Islander). Hy. Winsby, Carpenter. Neil McGregor, Carpenter’s Mate (from New Brunswick). Arman (Madrassee). Kurreem (Bengalee). James Giles. Three Wellington Blacks. One Police Trooper, John Phillips, joined the party, on duty, at Mr. Chapman’s Paringa. Total—Forty-five persons. JOURNAL OF VOYAGE ON THE MURRAY. Amongst the anomalies which may be said to distinguish the continent of Australia from other inhabited portions of the globe, not the least remarkable perhaps has been the almost unnoticed existence of one of the longest and most navigable rivers in the world. This river is the Murray, which, deriving its sources from the deep gorges over which Mount Kosciusko, the loftiest of the Australian Alps, rears its snowy crest, pursues its placid course for upwards of two thousand[2] miles through the Colonies of New South Wales, Victoria, and South Australia, until, losing its channel in the broad but shallow Lake Alexandrina, it eventually finds a passage for its waters through the boisterous surges which beat upon the shores of Encounter Bay. This great stream, exceeding in the extent of its course the Ganges, the Indus, or the La Plata, three of the longest rivers in the world, and with thrice the development of the Rhine, the Rhone, or the Elbe, is fed also by tributaries, which, in magnitude and, during certain seasons, in navigability, may not be much inferior to those European streams. These are the Darling, the Lachlan, and the Murrumbidgee; of which the first, rising in the vicinity of Moreton Bay, in about latitude 28° and longitude 152° 30′ (and with tributaries reaching almost to the tropic), after stretching for about half its course, or near one thousand miles, in a west and south-west direction, descends at length to join its waters with the Murray, in latitude 34° 10′ and longitude 142°.