title: Those Tremendous Mountains: The Story of the Lewis and Clark Expedition
author:  David Freeman Hawke 
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  # Memoirs of William Cox, J.P.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  CHAPTER 8. THE BLUE MOUNTAINS
  
  
  CHAPTER 9. THE MOUNTAIN ROAD.
  
  
  CHAPTER 10. THE REWARD OF LABOR.
  
  
  APPENDIX
  
  
  
  
  
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  The following is an extract of Chapters 8, 9 and 10 from
  
  
  Memoirs of William Cox, J.P.,
  
  
  Lieutenant and Paymaster of N.S.W. Corps,
  
  
  or 102nd Regiment.
  
  
  Late of Clarendon, Windsor.
  
  
  Facsimile reprint published in 1979
  
  
  by the Library of Australian History.
  
  
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  William Cox was responsible for the making of the road over the Blue
  
  
  Mountains in 1814, not long after the first successful crossing by
  
  
  Blaxland, Lawson and Wentworth.
  
  
  Cox's memoirs were not written by him and, in the Introduction to
  
  
  the 1979 edition, Edna Hickson, great-great grand daughter of William
  
  
  Cox, states that it is likely that a gran