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days over a rocky mountainous country, interspersed 

 with deep g-ullies and creeks^ fring-ed with belts of 

 scrub. In these scrubs I saw the white-apple and 

 the crimson scitamineous plant seen near Kocking- 

 ham Bay ; scattered over the country were a few 

 cedar trees and Moreton Bay chesnuts^ and some 

 very fine timber trees belono-ino;- to the natural order 

 Ilyrtacece, upwards of sixty feet hig'h^ and three to 

 fom' feet in diameter, with fine straio-ht trunks. 



Oct. 26fh to 28fA.— We travelled over stony 

 hills, the tops of which were occasionall}' composed 

 of white flint ( ?), with rusty veins running- through it. 

 On the sides of the hills were broken rocks con- 

 taining* mica^ hornblende^ and crystals of quartz. 

 The g'rass on these hills had all been newly burned. 



Oct. 2dth. — Sunday j prayers at eleven o'clock. 

 We this day shot three small wallabies^ which were 

 a g-reat treat to us. 



Oct. 'SOth. — This day Luff was taken very lame, 

 being- seized with severe pain and stiffness in the 

 rig-lit leg- j he was quite unable to walk, so we 

 burned the other two round tents to enable him to 

 ride. 



JVov. l.<^t and 2nd. — We ag-ain had to kill a 

 horse which was too weak, and disposed of it as we 

 had our former ones. 



JVov. Srd. — We were cutting- through scrub all 

 day, intersected by deep g-ulhes and rocky hills ; we 

 crossed a small river, with very uneven rocky bottom, 

 about three feet deep ; where we crossed it, it was 



