Archibald Bell, who found ’a route from the Hawkesbury and Richmond to Cox’s River on the weest of the Blue Mountains’. ’In the ensuing three years a road was made along the rute which became known as the ‘Bell’s Line of Road’ and today a modern highway following substantially the same route carries considerable volume of motor vehicle traffic across the Blue Mountains.’ Archibald bell kept a diary, a manuscript of 16 pages, which a descendant passed to the Mitchell Library over 150 years later, in 1977. The story was written up in ’ The Discovery of Bell’s Line, 1923: a Note and a Document, by R. Else-Mitchell, published in JRAHS, Vol. 66 Pt 2, September 1980, the account reproducing the full text of the diary. JS LOCATION: In the JRAHS collection, lower study.