The basins of the Hume lie in the deepest recesses of the Australian Alps, and its im- mediate tributaries having also their sources among the Snowy mountains, it is supplied Recent information concerning Australia Felix, by.

Arden, Esq.

Several writers on Australia speak of this river by the name of the Murray only, and some confusion is certainly apt to arise in the minds of readers not intimately acquainted with the subject, from its bear- ing different names in different places, yet this does from them with never-failing streams, and enabled to support a continuous volume, whose strength is manifested by its having forced a channel through a portion of the desert interior, instead of spreading over extensive plains, or being lost among mo- rasses, like several other northern streams I have, I believe, elsewhere quoted the remark of Sir Thomas Mitchell, that " each Australian river seems to have some peculiar character, sustained with remarkable uni- formity throughout the whole course.

" That of the Hume appears to consist chiefly in the vast extent of alluvial margin, the lofty trees, and still lakes, which form its leading features throughout the varied scenery of the extensive regions which it fertilizes and adorns It has been crossed, at different seasons and places, by Hovell, Hume, Sturt, Mitchell, I law don, and Strzelecki, and to the latter explorer we owe the knowledge of its sources It is worthy of notice, that the Hume receives no tributaries from the westward or the northward The first junc- tion of any importance, is formed by the Mitta Mitta River, itself the recipient of Tallargetta and Livingstone creeks; some forty miles further, a small stream named the Kewa joins the main channel.

About the same distance beyond, is a low granite hill named Mount Ochtertyre.