328 hervey's range in sight. [ch. vhi. 



Avhich I took to be the general direction of the Bogan, con- 

 sidering the position of Croker's range on the east, and that 

 of the hills in the south, which I had traced. We travelled 

 through forests of magnificent "pine" trees (callitris pyrami- 

 dalis), and crossing, at twelve miles further, a dry creek, 

 which appeared to be that of Tandogo, we encamped on the 

 Bogan, where there was a good pond of water. This abun- 

 dance was the more acceptable, as we had now left behind 

 a part of the bed of this little river, which for thirty miles 

 was quite dry ; the total want of water there, being chiefly 

 owing to the absorbent nature of the subsoil. We were now 

 drawing towards its sources amongst the hills, and the same 

 scarcity no longer prevailed. The height and girt of some of 

 the callitris trees were very considerable. Thus, we found 

 that Australia contains some extensive forests of a very good 

 substitute for the cedar of the colony {cedrela toona, R. Br.), 

 which is to be found only in some rocky gullies of the Coast 

 range, and is likely to be exhausted in a short time. The 

 acacia pendula adorned the immediate banks of the Bogan, 

 but the grass was old and dry, being a crop of two years' 

 growth ; the cattle consequently did not feed well on it, and 

 at last grew so weak, that they could not be worked more 

 than four hours, and thus our progress was limited to about 

 eight miles a day. 



Sept. 7. — We followed the bearing of 139^°, as the direc- 

 tion in which we were most likely to find the Bogan, con- 

 sidering its general course and the position of the hills to the 

 southward. After travelling eight miles, a sight of the 

 highest point of Hcrvey's range, enabled me, at once, to de- 

 termine my place on the map. We then proceeded on the 

 bearing of 103°, and made the Bogan at a spot, where its 

 banks were beautiful, and the grass of better quality tban 

 any we had seen for some time. The acacia pendula grew 

 there in company with the pine (or callilris), the casuurlna 

 and eucali/ptits, besides many smaller ti'ees, in gi'aceful 

 ^^roups, the surface being very smootli and park-like. 



