Note 30 — JOURNAL OF VOYAGE ON THE MURRAY.

The result of this expedition to the Colony of South Australia may truly be called the discovery of the Golden Fleece; for by the successful achievement of the navigation of the Murray by Captain Cadell’s steamer, Sir Henry Young has obtained an immediate increase to the exports of the Province of certainly 1,000,000lbs. of wool, of the value of about £80,000. I limit the amount to about this sum, because, for another twelve months, I doubt the steamer being able to carry the estimated quantity of wool even from Swan Hill—and amounting, with two years’ clip, to £162,000—unless, indeed, the boats navigated, as is expected, from England, for the Murray, should arrive. But when the boats are equal to the freight, I conceive the addition to the exports of South Australia will not fall short of £350,000.