The commencement of the ascent from Emu Plains, to the first depot, and then to a resting-place, now called Spring Wood, distant twelve miles from Emu Ford, was through a very handsome forest of lofty trees, and much more practicable and easy than was expected.  The facility of the ascent for this distance excited surprise, and is certainly not well calculated to give the traveller a just idea of the difficulties he has afterwards to encounter.

At a farther distance of four miles, a sudden change is perceived in the appearance of the timber, and the quality of the soil; the former becoming stunted, and the latter barren and rocky.  At this place the fatigues of the journey may be said to commence; here the country became altogether mountainous, and extremely rugged.  Near to the eighteenth mile mark (it is to be observed the measure commences from Emu Ford), a pile of stones attracted attention; it is close to the line of road, on the top of a rugged and abrupt ascent, and is supposed to have been placed by Mr. Caley, as the extreme limit of his tour; hence the governor gave that part of the mountain the name of Caley’s Repulse.  To have penetrated even so far, was an effort of no small difficulty.  From hence forward to the twenty-sixth mile is a succession of steep and rugged hills, some of which are almost so abrupt as to deny a passage altogether; but at this place a considerably extensive plain is arrived at, which constitutes the summit of the western mountains, and from thence a most extensive and beautiful prospect presents itself on all sides to the eye.  The town of Windsor, the River Hawkesbury, Prospect Hill, and other objects within that part of the colony now inhabited, of equal interest, are distinctly seen from hence.  The majestic grandeur of the situation, combined with the various objects to be seen from this place, induced the governor to give it the appellation of the King’s Table Land.  On the south-west side of the King’s Table Land, the mountain terminates in abrupt precipices of immense depth; at the bottom of which is seen a glen, as romantically beautiful as can be imagined, bounded on the farther side by mountains of great magnitude, terminating equally abruptly as the others; and the whole whole thickly covered with timber.  The length of this picturesque and remarkable tract of country is about twenty-four miles, to which the governor gave the name of the Prince Regent’s Glen.  Proceeding hence to the thirty-third mile, on the top of a hill an opening presents itself on the south-west side of the Prince Regent’s Glen, from whence a view obtained particularly beautiful and grand:  mountains rising beyond mountains, with stupendous masses of rock in the fore ground, here strike the eye with admiration and astonishment.  The circular form in which the whole is so wonderfully disposed, induced the governor to give the name of Pitt’s Amphitheatre to this offset or branch from the Prince Regent’s Glen.  The road