" Rivers Hastings, Wilson, Maria, Man- ning, Brumo, Ellenborough, and Forbes Creeks Tymbank, Pipers, Limeburners, Pappinburra, Limestone, Koolobungan, Kin- dee, and Cathie.

Lakes Many, but of small extent ; principal the Innes, Queens, Watson, and Taylor.

The climate of this division of New South Wales is said to be more agreeable than that of Sydney; the mountains approach nearer to the coast, collect the vapours from the sea, and cause more frequent rains ; in summer, especially, the heat is mitigated by many heavy thunder showers It is almost entirely exempt from the hot winds, which are frequent during the summer months, in the more southern parts of the colony; more- over, the north-eastern part of New South Wales, between the great main range dividing the eastern and western waters and the ocean, has never experienced the long droughts which appear to occur septennially in the central and western districts The greatest drought experienced in the Port Macquarie neighbourhood, was in 1841-2, when the natural grasses were quite desiccated, and the whole country continually in flames, the only young grass for the cattle and the sheep being in the flats ; but the water-courses were as full of water as ever ; and the wheat crops which had failed near Sydney yielded abundantly on the alluvial farms on the banks of Wilsons river in some places averaging forty bushels of sixty-five pounds each, to the acre.

From Moruton Buy to the Manning river, the MHitlirru boundary of the county of Maeiiiaric, a distance of about 270 miles along the coast, there are nine rivers, via.

I !ns!) me, Tweed, Richmond, Clarence, Bellenui-n, MLeay, Hastings, Canideii Haven ereek, ami tin- Manning.