Small Blue Gum-Trees, Box, Cypress, And A
Multitude Of Acacia Shrubs Of Various Species, Were The Usual
Productions Of The Drier And More Elevated Grounds.
Our expectations of an extensive prospect from the top of the hill were
not disappointed:
We had a distinct view round the compass. The river
wound close under the foot of the hill, and trending to the south-east
through low marshy grounds covered with atriplex bushes and the acacia
pendula, evidently and distinctly showed that it originated in the
separated branches of the Lachlan, which it is probable united fifteen
or twenty miles below Mount Cunningham, forming the present stream. The
north-east side of the river was equally low and marshy. All the points
which had been set at Mount Cunningham were distinctly recognised, and
bearings being now taken to them, served to correct and prove the
survey. The bearings taken from this hill, named Piper's Hill, were as
follows by the theodolite:
Mount Cunningham E. 9 deg. 20 min. S.
Mount Meyrick S. 67 10 E.
Mount Maude S. 62 0 E.
Table Hill S. 4 30 E.
Line of Mount Byng,
called Watson Taylor's range E. 7 0 W.
Mount Granard N. 79 0 W.
Mount Barrer N. 68 0 W.
about the same distance as Mount Granard.
Extreme of a high range from N. 59 1/2 W., to N. 24 1/2 W.;
nearest extreme distance about thirty miles, westward 45.
Extremes of another range from N. 10.
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