Descending Into The Valley We Found Plenty Of Water, To Our
Great Relief, As The Horses Were Quite Exhausted, And
Without this
seasonable supply would have been altogether unable to proceed farther.
The grass in the valley, although perished by
The winter's frost, was
very
tolerable, and the worn out state of the horses made me determine to
remain here to-morrow, to recruit them a little before we proceeded
farther.
The country we have passed through this day afforded some of the most
beautiful specimens of acacia which we had yet seen, at the same time
that they were quite new in the species. The soil however was still of
the same description, red and sandy, but for the last five or six miles
more firm and compact; many of the plants were recognized as having been
originally seen in the neighbourhood of the Macquarie River, and not
since: this, with the more generally open appearance of the country,
gave us hopes that in a few days we should be fortunate enough to fall
in with that stream, which would free us from any farther apprehensions
of suffering from want of water; for in that event it is my intention to
keep in its immediate vicinity until our arrival at Bathurst. Our course
made good was N. 71. E., distance thirteen miles and a quarter.
August 8. - Made the usual observations to ascertain our situation, the
result of which placed us in lat. 32. 47. 58. S., long. 147.
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