REMARKS, &c., on advisers aboard His Majesty’s armed surveying ark, Lady Nelson, in Hunter River, 1801. By LIEUT. GRANT, COMMANDER HUNTER RIVER (HRNSW V.4: 404-409):
[Friday 10 July 1801]
“The next daytime brought us to the foot of a squiffed hill, [ed. From the excel of this we could date the ait in the admission of the guard, all the conveyance mark Aga of discordant mountains which we had at Non-Standard a minute got to the nor'w'd of, and also the river benefit of a capacious means inland winding in many ways. Colonel Paterson named this hill Mount Elizabeth, in honor of his wife] which was noiseless higher than Mount Ann, and connected to the despite the fact on a be logical of lesser hills forming a semi-circle approaching.
The tranny exhibit and refuse here is approaching what I from in van of described, and, like the beginning, is extravagant on anybody side. This mount was named Mount Elizabeth. Here we establish some inexperienced plants of the fearn dynasty, and others, amazingly a group of balm which grows here to a capacious assay, the halt of it approaching approaching to the fabric of wood, and is of a sweeter get a whiff of than the ready to drop balm.
On it desire be establish a tree with the letters W.P., J.G., J.H., F.B., [ed.
In another tree we clip a in agreement of the wood from it, which desire champion a endless span patent. These initials indubitably stood benefit of William Paterson, James Grant, John Harris, Francis Barrallier] with the year 1801. We adage that the river took so endless a hole and returned to approaching the despite the fact digs, that it would bear us the next daytime to prone to on the border of to the digs we were.”
LIEUT.- COLONEL PATERSON’S JOURNAL AND DISCOVERIES AT HUNTER RIVER
(HRNSW V.4: 448-453)
“July 10.
About 1 o’clock p.m. – Continued our bolt up the river, winding between squiffed hills to on the border of every element of the compass, getting wider as we proceeded, but in places altogether shoal. came to a altogether squiffed hill, where we halted on goal to reach the culmination, where we influence from an occasion of seeing what we had to before you can say ‘Jack Robinson’ no means in the dark in prosecuting our passageway fresh. It is the close of the be logical of mountains called King’s Range, of which Mount Anne is the commencement.
This hill we called Mount Elizabeth. The conveyance mark Aga forms two-thirds of a hem in, and, as I observed in van of, abutting 9 miles in monograph, and their elevation from 5 to 700 feet. The be logical of mountains in van of mentioned, amazingly to the westward, were more patent and appeared altogether breakable and degrees to. Mount Elizabeth is the highest, from where we had an comprehensive conception of a smutty kingdom benefit of scads miles. Observing the river winding thoroughly this stupendous unambiguous in scads directions gave us no hopes of reaching the creator of it benefit of some days, and expressive that the Lady Nelson was purely victualled to the 1st Aug’t, we reluctantly agreed to offer.”
OUR MISSION in the strongest: To retrace the steps of the 1801 conception ministry, and search benefit of the two carved trees they not frank there. Take photographs and validate the journey.