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northerly direction, and camped by the side of a 

 creek running west by south, which, with the last 

 two creeks we had passed, we doubted not, from 

 the appearance of the country, ran into the river 

 we had crossed on the 20th inst. The country 

 appeared to fall considerably to the westward. All 

 the rivers and larg-e creeks we had seen on this side 

 the range (that crossed on the 10th instant) rose in 

 or near the coast range, and appeared to run 

 westerly across the peninsula into the Gulf of Car- 

 pentaria. 



Although few of them appeared to be constantly 

 running, yet there is an abundance of water to be 

 found in holes and reaches of the rivers and creeks. 

 Where there was any scrub by the side of the 

 creeks, it was composed principally of the chmbing 

 palm (calamus), Glyceria, Kennedya, Mucuna, and 

 a strong growing Ipomcea, with herbaceo-fibrous 

 roots, and palmate leaves; and in a few places 

 bamboos were growing. 



The trees were, Ev,genias, Terminalias, Castano- 

 spermums, with two or three kinds of deciduous figs, 

 bearing large bunches of yellowish fruit on the 

 trunks. Although we frequently partook of these 

 figs I found they did not agree with us ; three or 

 four of the party who frequently ate a great quan- 

 tity, although advised not to do so, suffered severely 

 from pain in the head and swelling of the eyes. 

 The forest trees on the iron-stone ridges were 

 stringy-bark, and on the grassy hills, box, Moreton 



