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plains are situated, belongs, however, to the Nammoy, 

 which receives all their waters ; and, in the extensive land- 

 scape before me, there appeared to be an opening near Tan- 

 gulda, through which the whole of these waters probably 

 passed to the north-west. 



The bushranger's tale was, that he had reached the " Kin- 

 dur," or " large river," by proceeding north-east by north 

 from " Tangulda." I then perceived only a few low hills to 

 the eastward of that pic : circumstances, which rendered the 

 account of his journey beyond it, also pi'obable. 



I had scarcely time to complete a sketch of these hills, 

 before the sun went down. Mr. White took bearings of the 

 principal summits, and at the same time obtained their re- 

 spective names from the native. The range that we had as- 

 cended consisted of porphyry, having a base of fawn-coloured 

 compact felspar, with grains of quartz, and crystals of com- 

 mon felspar. We reached the tents, distant from the hill a 

 mile and a half, as night came on. The moon soon rose in 

 cloudless splendour, and received our particular attention, 

 for we were uncertain how soon we should be compelled to 

 depend on the chronometer alone for the longitude, which 

 thus far, we had been enabled to connect with the survey of 

 the colony, by means of Barragundy and other hills towards 

 Liverpool range. 



Dec. 16. — We proceeded over a perfectly level surface, 

 wooded rather thickly with a broad-leaved eucalyptus, and 

 the acacia pendula. The air was cool, and a most refreshino- 

 breeze met us in the face during the whole of this day's 

 journey ; the thermometer at sunrise was only 52°. After 

 travelling upwards of ten miles, we crossed the corner of an 

 open plain, and five miles further on, we reached the bank 

 of the river Nammoy, and encamped about noon. This 

 stream, having received the Conadilly from the left bank, 

 had here an important appearance : the breadth of the water 

 was TOO feet, its mean depth ll| feet; the current half a 

 mile per hour, and the height of the banks above the water 



