Book excerpt: This book with a very strong supporting foreword by the former Surveyor General of Victoria, Dr. Keith Clifford Bell AM RFD FIEAust FISV F.ASCE LS(Vic) CPEng NER APEC Engineer IntPE (Aus) examines primary evidence, previously not examined by other researchers but was recorded in Hovell's journal during the 1824-5 expedition.The relevant pages of Hovell's journal prior to reaching Port Phillip and the first days of the return journey have been transcribed and included in this Second Edition. Material presented unquestionably reveals that the expedition sighted the Yarra River on the day before they reached the bay and on the first day of the return journey at 4pm they stopped at Point Gellibrand.This material, amongst other facts presented, clearly shows that the expedition could never have visited Corio Bay and that the termination point of the expedition was at the Werribee River.