Got up this morning at Day-break and sent off our Baggage immediately. -- Breakfasted at 7 -- and set out in [the] Carriage with Mrs. M. at 8 o'clock; and arrived on the summit of the King's Table Land at Half past 8 o'clock. -- Mrs. M. and myself here Quitted the carriage and mounted our Horses for the purpose of viewing and exploring the Beauties of the grand and sublime scenery of this Table Mountain and of the Prince Regent's Glen, which presents a variety of sublime and grand objects. -- There is one Water Fall at least one Thousand feet in Height to be seen here in awful grandeur; and there is also a most singular and curious Cavern or Cave in the face of one of the Hills forming one side of the Glen, and which I have named Oxley's Grotto in commemoration of Mr. Oxley's (the Surveyor General) having first discovered it. -- We all descended the Hill to see this curious Cavern and were much gratified with the sight of it. -- The Prince Regent's Glen extends in length from the King's Table Land for Twenty four miles to Mount York, and until it opens into the Vale of Clwydd where the Glen terminates to the Westward.---

From the highest part of the King's Table Land we could see the whole of the Country to the Eastward of the Blue Mountains, and could plainly see and distinguish the several Buildings in the Town of Windsor, distant about 30 miles from us in a direct Line -- and bearing from the highest part of the King's Table Land. ---

After exploring all the curious parts of the King's Table Land and Prince Regent's Glen, we pursued our Journey, on Horseback, and arrived at "Spring Wood" at 3 o'clock; the Distance from our last Ground being 16 miles. I stopt for a few minutes at the Pile of Stones which I have called "Caley's Repulse", situated near the 17th. Mile Tree, and from whence there is a very extensive view to the Eastward and Southward.

16 May 1815 | 18 May 1815