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trees growing* on the hill were casuarinaSj and 

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

 tethered our horses^ for fear they 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 

 g-reat heig-ht, and almost perpendicular. The river 

 runs throuo'h a rano-e of hills comino- from the east- 



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

 jom'ney 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 throug-h the scrub towards 

 the mountains, and camped but a short distance 

 from where we rested the previous evening*. We 

 were now at the foot of the rang-e. 



July 2dth. — Mr. Kennedy 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, pomeg"ranate, cotton, and 

 apple pips. 



