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July 26M. — The morning clear and piercingly cold^ so 

 that we found two blankets and a counterpane insufficient 

 for our shelter. At eight o'clock we started, travelling 

 agreeably over an extent of open and gently undulating 

 forest ground, and after four miles and a half reached the River 

 Logan, at its junction with a creek. At this spot it is a fine 

 rapidly running stream of considerable magnitude, and in 

 ordinary seasons must contain a large body of water: the 

 immediate banks are bold and almost precipitous, clothed 

 with thick brushes of creeping plants, containing a great 

 number of the Castaiiospermuiny or native Chestnut Trees. 



Having unloaded the bullocks, we got them across with 

 some difficulty, and carried their burdens to the opposite 

 shore. The country for some distance from the Logan 

 River, is very rich, and produces fine Gum Trees. At noon 

 we observed the latitude, which showed 27^ 48' South. An 

 hour after, we pursued our way through fine forests, and once 

 more arrived at the Loijan, at the distance of but a mile and 

 a half from our former crossing place. We found it impos- 

 sible to ford the river again, and were obliged to hold on for 



two miles in a more easterly direction, until the windings of 

 th 



Having passed two creeks which fall into the Logan, and 

 reached a much improved country, we halted for the rest of 

 the day: our progress was eight miles and a half, and the 

 true reduced course to the south six miles. We had ob- 

 served nothing new in the botanical features of this day's 

 journey. 



On the banks of the Logan, and in the immediate vicinity 

 of a native encampment, I noticed three sticks set upright in 

 the ground, forming a triangle, and listened together by a 

 cord at top, on which was placed a sheet of bark ; and seeing 

 something suspended under shelter of this bark, my curiosity 

 induced me to point it out to Capt. Logan, who informed me 

 that it is customary for the tribes, when leaving a district, to 

 <ieposit in such a situation their Kangaroo-Nets, DilUes, 

 ^ass mats, chissels, and superfluous implements, until their 

 '^turn. It is considered the greatest breach of faith among 



e stream should again permit us to proceed southward. 



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