After Going Thirteen Or Fourteen Miles, And Finding No Water, I Camped, And As We Had None For Ourselves, I Sent Alec Ross, Saleh, And Tommy Into The Hills With The Camels To A Place About Ten Miles Back, Where I Had Seen A Small Native Well.

They returned the following day, having found a good-sized water-hole, and brought a supply to the camp.

The last two nights were cloudy, and I could get no observations for latitude. While the camels were away I ascended a hill close by the camp; the scene was indeed most extraordinary, bald and abrupt hills, mounts, and ranges being thrown up in all directions; they resemble the billows of a tempestuous ocean suddenly solidified into stone, or as though a hundred thousand million Pelions had been upon as many million Ossas hurled, and as though the falling masses, with superincumbent weight, falling, flattened out the summits of the mountains low but great.

Our creek, as well as I could determine, seemed to be joined by others in its course north-easterly. I was surprised to find a creek running in that direction, expecting rather to find the fall of the whole region to the opposite point, as we are now in the midst of the hill-country that forms the watershed, that sends so many rivers into the sea on the west coast. The hills forming these watersheds are almost uniformly composed of granite, and generally lie in almost parallel lines, nearly east and west.

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