The Many Waters Which Fall Into Apsley River Must Very
Considerably Increase Its Magnitude; And I Am In Hopes After It Has
Cleared This Mountainous Tract And We Again Fall In With It, That We
Shall Find It A Useful As Well As Fine Stream.
The river on which we
encamped was named Croker's River, in honour of the First Secretary of
the Admiralty.
September 17. - We proceeded on an easterly course during this day's
journey; and seven miles from Croker's River crossed a smaller stream
running to the north-east. For the first ten miles the country was
very poor and badly timbered, with barren stony hills; but from the
last mentioned stream to our halting-place, at the end of twelve
miles, though the land was hilly the soil was excellent, consisting
of a rich, dark mould. The hills were particularly rich and thickly
clothed with fine timber, blue gum, and stringy bark. We halted
on the side of a hill, from the top of which we could see a great
distance to the north and east. In the first quarter, lofty hills were
seen from eighty to one hundred miles off, and generally very irregular.
To the east the land was elevated, but more divided by sloping valleys,
and we augured that at least for thirty miles in the direction of our
course, we should not meet with any such serious obstruction as the last:
indeed we imagined we could trace the course of the river nearly on a
parallel line with us.
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