Across the Blue Mountains

Wentworth’s account of this 1813 expedition

Over the Hills and Far Away

We have at all events proved that they [the Mountains] are traversable, and that, too, by cattle, a circumstance which by those who were allowed to possess some local knowledge of the country has been hitherto deemed impossible.

W. C. Wentworth (1790–1872) was twenty-three when he went on this expedition. He had already been granted 1750 acres by Governor Macquarie on the Nepean and was spurred on by youthful adventure as well as the desire to discover new pastures.

The illegitimate son of a convict, Catherine Crowley, and D’Arcy Wentworth, who had been charged with, but not convicted of, highway robbery, William Charles rose to be one of the commanding figures of New South Wales politics.
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