In his Essay on Progress, Fenerty wrote:

Here, in this beauteous land of orient day,
Where Sol’ dispenses his congenial ray ;
Fresh as the autumn rain her grief distils,
O’er her undaunted †Burke and youthful Wills,
Who crossed a continent untracked before,
And perished in success – what could they more?

Those lines were written prior to his return to Canada in 1865. Fenerty travelled throughout the continent: Australia, New Zealand, and the Antipodes.