Thomas Mitchell works on a coherent map of the lower Hunter region

Surveyor General Thomas Mitchell works on a coherent map of the lower Hunter region. (Hoipo, Wollombi Historical Society). He creates a new Counties map. Mitchell insists on detailed plotting of streams to form his own territorial boundaries, that of Land Parishes (Ford 394) He also instructs his surveyors to use Aboriginal place-names:“I will not suffer any surveyor to give to any river or place any other than the proper native names” and “the true natives’ (names) of all these mountains being of importance”.