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trees gromng' on the hill were casuarinas, and 

 acacias, with a few hox-trees. Here we camped and 

 tethered our horses, for fear the}" should fall down 

 the steep bank of the river. At the foot of the hill, 

 on the opposite side of this river, the rocks were of 

 great heig-ht, and almost perpendicular. The river 

 runs thi-ough a range of hUls coming from the east- 

 ward, joining a xery high range, over which our 

 journey now lay. This range is composed of a dark 

 coloured granite, very hard ; near the water was a 

 vein of talc schist, running north-west and south- 

 east. On the top of the hiQ we found large pebbles 

 of quartz. 



Jtdi/ •2Sth. — This morning, having loosed our 

 horses from the tether, one of them fell down from 

 the hiU upon a ledge of hard rock at the edge of the 

 river, a descent of thirty feet ; he was so much 

 injured by the fall that he died during the day. 

 We came down the hill through the scrub towards 

 the mountains, and camped but a short distance 

 from where we rested the previous eveiung. We 

 were now at the foot of the rano-e. 



July 29th. — Mr. Kennedy proceeded to explore 

 the range, to ascertain the best spot to cross it, 

 it being covered with thick scrub. It runs from the 

 southward and turns eastward. I dug up a piece 

 of gTound here near the edge of the scrub, and 

 sowed seeds of cabbage, turnip, rock and water 

 melons, parsle}', leek, pomegranate, cotton, and 

 apple pips. 



