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July 25th. — The temperature delightful, and sky cloudy. 

 At half-past eight we continued our course southwai*d, which 

 led us for a considerable distance along the banks of Canoe 

 Creek, over a country varied with alternate strips of Tea 

 Tree, {Melaleuca linariifolia,) of swamps and sandy forest 

 land, the latter consisting of Honeysuckle Tree, {Banksia in- 

 tegrifolia,) the Forest Oak, {Casuarina torulosa,) and stunted 

 Gum Trees, {Eucalypti.) The creek now taking a sudden 

 eastward turn, we were obliged to ascend a range of low hills, 

 leaving on the left some beautiful flats of rich land. The 

 hills are formed of a light sandy soil, and clothed with a 

 sward of good grass, and I remarked several encampments 

 of natives, the shape of whose huts were different from any I 

 had hitherto seen. At half-past seven we again fell in with 

 the course of the creek, and rested our cattle. Havin.o- 

 carried their loads jicross the creek, and reloaded, with some 

 difficulty, the animals, we resumed our journey at one o'clock. 

 The way lay over a tract of uninteresting country, inter- 

 spersed again with swamps, clumps of Tea Tree, and flats of 

 a poor argillaceous soil, which, however, produced some 

 excellent timber. We again left the creek, and crossed 

 several ridges of Honeysuckle Tree and Forest Oak, the latter 

 overgrown with a magnificent species of Lora?ithus. At two 

 and a half miles from the creek, we passed a grave of a high 

 oval form, around which lay felled about forty large trees of 

 Banksia Compar: they had evidently been cut down with a 

 hatchet, and their tops were carefully laid over the grave, as 

 if on purpose to conceal it. The most probable conclusion 

 from this circumstance was, that the interment belonged to 

 one of the runaway convicts from Brisbane Town. Beside 

 the grave was a large hole, full of water, and a well-beaten 

 path led to it. Beyond this spot an evident alteration was 

 observable in the country. The Honeysuckles, {Banksia in- 

 tegrifolia,) disappear, and are succeeded by an open forest of 

 sandy soil, after passing nearly two miles of which, we en- 

 camped for the night, on the margin of a small creek, having ac- 

 complished by the adometer, a distance of ten miles, and the 

 reduced true course south being nearly nine miles. 



