The Rock
Is In A State Of Rapid Decomposition, With Deep Holes And Caves Inhabited
By Rock-Wallabies; And With Abundance Of Nests Of Wasps, And Wasp-Like
Hymenoptera, Attached To Their Walls, Or Fixed In The Interstices Of The
Loose Rock.
Through a few gullies I succeeded in ascending a kind of
table-land, covered with a low scrub, in which the vegetation about
Sydney appeared in several of its most common forms.
I then descended
into other valleys to the eastward, but all turned to the east and
south-east; and, after a long and patient investigation, I found no
opening through which we could pass with our bullocks. Although I
returned little satisfied with my ride, I had obtained much interesting
information as to the geological character of this singular country.
CHAPTER III
RUINED CASTLE CREEK - ZAMIA CREEK - BIGGE'S MOUNTAIN - ALLOWANCE OF FLOUR
REDUCED - NATIVES SPEAR A HORSE - CHRISTMAS RANGES - BROWN'S
LAGOONS - THUNDER-STORMS - ALBINIA DOWNS - COMET CREEK - NATIVE CAMP.
Dec. 1. - I rode to the eastward from our camp, to ascertain how far we
were from the water-hole to which I had intended to conduct my party.
After having ascended the gullies, and passed the low scrub and
cypress-pine thicket which surrounds them, I came into the open forest,
and soon found our tracks, and the little creek for which I had steered
the day before. This creek, however, soon became a rocky gully, and
joined a large creek, trending to the east and south-east.
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