Instead, we have the prosaic statement:-- "I came to a very high mount, when I was much pleased with the sight westward.

I think I can see 40 miles which had the look of open country." In a pleasant valley, he came upon a large "riverlett," and on its banks they camped.

There they shot ducks and caught "trout" -- as he called the Murray Cod -- the first of the species to tickle the palate of a white man; fine specimens, too, weighing five and six pounds.

As he proceeded further and further, he became enchanted with the scenery: "The handsomest I have yet seen, with gently-rising hills and dales well-watered" -- and he finally notes that language failed him to describe it adequately.
Evans named the river that led him through this veritable land of promise the Fish River, and a river which joined its waters with it from the south he called the Campbell River.

The united stream he christened, as in duty bound, the Macquarie.