170 KENNEDY'^ EXPEDITION. 



cook at every meal. We this day burned our 

 sheepfold to lighten our loads a little. 



Aug. 15th. — We were cutting- throug-h scrub 

 nearly all da}^^ and crossed several small creeks 

 running* westward. This day the horse carrying- 

 my specimens had become so poor and weak that he 

 fell five different times^ and we were oblig'ed to 

 relieve him of his load^ which was now placed on 

 one of Mr. Kennedy's horses j but we soon found 

 that even without a load he could not travel. We 

 took off his saddle^ bridle, and tether rope, and left 

 him behind on a spot of g'ood g-rass, where plenty of 

 water was to be found. 



The countr}^ here had a rug'g'ed and broken 

 appearance ; hug'e blocks of rock were lying* on the 

 open g*round, sometimes one irreg'ularly placed on 

 the top of another, and of curious shapes. The hills 

 as well as the valleys were generally covered with 

 good grass, excepting in the scrub. On some of 

 the hills the rocks were shivered into irregular 

 pieces, and displayed crystals of quartz, small 

 lamin-te of mica, and occasionally hornblende. This 

 evening we camped by the side of a fine casuarina 

 creek, coming from the north-east. Immediately 

 over our camp its waters ran over a very hard 

 " trap-rock" of a black colour, the soil a stiff loam. 



Aug. Wth. — We travelled on for the most part of 

 this day over irregular, barren, stony ridges, and 

 gullies, intersected by numerous small creeks, and 

 abounding in rocky holes, all containing plenty of 

 water. 



