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“SURVEYOR JAMES McBRIEN.
“Surveyor McBrien visted Shoalhaven and Jervis Bay in 1824. This was the surveyor who in February, 1823, when on the Fish River, above Bathurst, first recorded the discovery of gold in Australia, Mr. E.H. Hargraves, in 1851, reporting the discovery of payable gold at Ophir near Orange.
“McBrien’s entries when visiting Shoalhaven, in 1824, give some idea of the amount of adjusting which had to be resorted to owing to the variations and irregularities of the old link-chain. One entry reads:- ‘These traces are taken with a chain sixteen inches too long.”
Cambage, R.H., Captain Cook’s Pigeon House and Early South Coast Explorers, Samuel Lee, Sydney, 1911. pp. 14-15.
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