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GRG 35/2/345, Surveyor General's Office, State Records of South Australia, Adelaide. 57.05.12

Preferred Citation:

Ferdinand von Mueller to Arthur Freeling, 1857-05-12. R.W. Home, Thomas A. Darragh, A.M. Lucas, Sara Maroske, D.M. Sinkora, J.H. Voigt and Monika Wells (eds), Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller, <https://vmcp.rbg.vic.gov.au/id/57-05-12>, accessed September 11, 2025

Melbourne bot. Gardens
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M was still in Sydney at this date.
12. May 1857.
Sir
I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter dated April 28,
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A. Freeling to M, 28 April 1857.
and to thank you for so prompt a compliance with my desire of recieving information on the north of your colony. I have also to thank you for your kindness of promising some additional information on this point hereafter, and am delighted to learn, that this interesting part of Australia is under your orders now to be surveyed.
Unless Mr Babbage overrated the distance of his northern most position, his statements become very interesting, as they seem to prove, that the channel of Lake Torrens towards N.E. is much narrower, than was anticipated, and if, at it seems probable, the Lake consists in that direction of isolated salt lagoons, a passage through the morasses might perhaps be practicable yet to the N.E.
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Lake Torrens was thought at this time to make a large arc around the northern end of the Flinders Ranges.
I remain, Sir,
your most obedient and humblest servant,
Ferd. Mueller.
The honorable Capt. Freeling, R.E.
&c&c&c
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See also E. Wildman to M, 14 July 1857.