62 TRAP-HILL ON PLAINS. 



having directed Jones (one of the men 

 ablest at fishing,) to try the j^ond, to the 

 no small amusement of the others ; he, 

 nevertheless, drew out in a short time, 

 a good dish of cray-fish (or lobsters, as 

 they termed them). We had also 

 killed a kangaroo that morning, vrhicli 

 enabled us to feed our famished doss, so 

 that our entry on this new region could 

 not have been more auspicious. 



In the afternoon, I walked to the iso- 

 lated hill of the plain, and found that 

 it consisted of trap-rock — a solid mass 

 projecting from the earth, with little or 

 no soil uj)on it. Its greater elongation 

 extended due north and south, confor- 

 mable to the direction of most of the 

 other summits, I had ascended. The 

 steepest side was towards the east, and 

 its height was 50 feet above the plain. 

 From this hill I perceived another like 

 it, due south, and distant about half 

 a mile. 



The dead silence of the solitary plains 

 around me, was broken by the sound 

 of a distant thunder-storm, which was 

 then exhausting itself on the Nunda- 

 war range, while the sun was setting 

 in perfect tranquillity on the unbroken 

 horizon of the west. Afterwards, the 

 night was dark and stormy, and at ten 

 it began to rain, a circumstance rather 

 alarming to us then, considering the 

 nature of the soil of these plains, which 

 a few days' rain must have rendered 

 nearly impassable. 





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