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many kangaroos and several emus ; met with 

 some natives, one of whom engaged to go with 

 them, if they would halt that night. This- 

 agreed to, they had leisure to examine .a hill, 

 the face of which appeared white, and proved 

 to be a large cliff of salt, a sample of which 

 they brought away. The next day they inclined 

 to the Westward, and went 16 miles W. S. W. 

 over a rocky country, covered with brushwood. 

 They on the following day, travelled in the 

 same direction, nearly the same distance, in 

 which* they got to an open mountainous coun- 

 try, where crossing a small river, they disco- 

 vered both coal and lime-stone, and every step 

 the scene improved. 



The 28th, they still went W. S. W. and added 

 to their distance 20 miles. In one part they 

 ascended a hill, from which they obtained a 

 view of the country for a great distance. To 

 the Northward it seemed to be open, and thinly 

 clad with timber: to the North- Westward they 

 saw some very high mountains, and apparent- 

 ly good land : to the Westward they saw a 

 deep break, which they thought formed by a 

 river. This day they met with a party of 

 natives, who were terrified, and ran away from 

 them. One of the party followed and came 

 up with a woman and child, whom he detained 

 to tempt the men to return, but though she 

 remained with them all night, the men did not 

 ippear. They gave her a small hatchet in the 

 morning, and sent her back. Wilson, though 

 le understood a little of the language of the 



