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cook at every meal. We this day burned our 

 slieepfold to lig-hten our loads a little. 



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

 nearly all day^ and crossed several small creeks 

 running- westward. This day the horse carrying- 

 my specimens had become so poor and weak that he 

 fell five difterent times^ and we were oblig-ed to 

 relieve him of his load^ which was now placed on 

 one of Mr. Kennedy's horses ; 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 country here had a rug-g-ed and broken 

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

 open gTound^ sometimes one irreg'ularty placed on 

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

 as well as the valleys were generally covered with 

 g'ood g-rass^ excepting- in the scrub. On some of 

 the hills the rocks were shivered into irreg'ular 

 pieces^ and displa3^ed crystals of quartz, small 

 laminoe 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. 



Avg. IQtJi. — We travelled on for the most part of 

 this day over irreg-ular, barren, stony ridg-es, and 

 g'ullies, intersected by numerous small creeks, and 

 abounding* in rocky holes, all containing* plenty of 

 water. 



