BATHURST, a county in the colony of New South Wales, lying between the rivers Lachlan and Macquarie. In the Bathurst mountains the first great gold digging began in May 1851. See AUSTRALIA. The town of Bathurst, 98 miles W.N.W. of Sydney, has since that time greatly increased in size and importance. Pop. of county in 1851, 6405.
This is also the name of a seaport town of Western Africa, capital of the British colony of Senegambia, at the mouth of the Gambia river, in N. Lat. 13. 28. W. Long. 16. 32.