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trees growing* on the hill were casuarhias, and 

 acacias^ with a few box -trees. Here we camped and 

 tethered our horses^ for fear the}^ should fall down 

 the steep bank of the river. At the foot of the hill^ 

 on the opposite side of this river^ the rocks were of 

 gTeat heig-ht^ and almost perpendicular. The river 

 runs throug'h a rang-e of hills coming- from the east- 

 ward^ joining- a very hig'h rang-e^ over which our 

 journey now lay. This rang-e is composed of a dark 

 coloured g-ranite^ very hard ; near the water was a 

 vein of talc schist^ running* north-west and south- 

 east. On the top of the hill we found larg*e pebbles 

 of quartz. 



July 2Sth. — This morning-^ having- loosed our 

 horses from the tether^ one of them fell down from 

 the hill upon a ledg-e of hard rock at the edg-e of the 

 river^ a descent of thirty feet ; he was so much 

 injured by the fall that he died during* the day. 

 We came down the hill throuo-h the scrub towards 

 the mountains^ and camped but a short distance 

 from where we rested the previous evening*. AVe 

 were now at the foot of the rang-e. 



July 29fh. — Mr. Kenned}^ proceeded to explore 

 the rang-e^ to ascertain the best spot to cross it^ 

 it being* covered with thick scrub. It runs from the 

 southward and turns eastward. I dug* up a piece 

 of g-round here near the edg*e of the scrub; and 

 sowed seeds of cabbag*e; turnip, rock and water 

 melons, parsley, leek, pomegranate, cotton, and 

 apple pips. 



