Although Our Proximity To The Sea Seemed To Preclude
The Probability Of Hastings River Being Joined By Any Other Considerable
Waters; Yet Its Present Size Made Us A Little Anxious To Find That It Had
A Serviceable Discharge Into The Ocean.
The ground over which we travelled
being very favourable to the weak state of the horses, we accomplished
between eight and nine miles.
Kangaroos abounded; four were this day
killed. Marks of flood were observed to the height of sixteen feet,
but the river appeared now to be in its lowest state, and the sides of
the barren mountains showed that there had been no rain of any consequence
for a considerable time.
September 29. - The country we passed through is what is generally known
in New South Wales as open forest land, with occasionally small flats on
the river: steep hills sometimes ended on the river, and north and south
of us were detached ranges of a similar description. The whole face of
the country was abundantly covered with good grass, which, having been
burnt some time, now bore the appearance of young wheat. Six miles down
the river it was joined by a fine stream from the southward, apparently
watering a spacious valley. We crossed this, and named it Ellenborough
River, in honour of the Chief Justice of England. We proceeded about
three miles farther before we halted at the edge of a thick detached
brush [Note: Many very beautiful shrubs inhabit these shaded thickets,
of which the following may serve as a specimen.
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