For The Remainder Of Our Day's Journey, We Passed Over Tracts Of Low Barren Ridges Covered With Brush, And Iron Bark Trees, And Open Valleys; The Country Was Of Moderate Elevation, But Still We Were Not So Fortunate As To Find Any Water, Although Every Slope Was Searched.

After having travelled fourteen miles, during the latter part of which it rained hard, I thought it most advisable

To stop, as we had just passed through a thick brush into a more open country, which would afford the horses something to eat; the rain, which still continued, relieving us from apprehension of their suffering much from want of water. As to ourselves, we had taken our now usual precaution to fill our keg, which gave us a pint each for our evening consumption, and the same quantity for breakfast the next morning.

In the course of the day the stirculia heterophylla was very abundant, and we remarked that the cypresses were those originally known as the callitris australis, and not of either of the other two species, which were common in the neighbourhood of the Lachlan. The brushes and scrubs were the only places that afforded any thing to the researches of the botanists; the open lands being covered with grass, and the shrubs being of acacias whose species had been already often seen on this side of the Blue Mountain range.

August 10. - The morning proved clear and mild, and at nine we again proceeded; as it was impossible to remain in a place that did not afford us any water, and not good grass.

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