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da}' s over a rocky moimtainous country, interspersed 

 with deep g-uUies 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 belonging- to the natural order 

 MyrtacecBj upwards of sixty feet high, and three to 

 fom' feet in diameter^ with fine straight trunks. 



Oct. 26th to 2Sth.—We travelled over stony 

 hills, the tops of which were occasionally 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. 29th. — Sunday; prayers at eleven o'clock. 

 We this day shot three small wallabies, Avhich were 

 a g-reat treat to us. 



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

 being- seized with severe pain and stiffiiess in the 

 right leg- ; he was quite unable to walk, so we 

 burned the other two round tents to enable him to 

 ride. 



JVov. 1st and 2nd. — We ag-ain had to kill a 

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

 had our former ones. 



JYov. 8rd. — We were cutting through scrub all 

 day, intersected by deep gullies and rocky hills ; we 

 crossed a small river, with ver}^ uneven rocky bottom, 

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



