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days over a rocky mountainous country, interspersed 

 with deep gullies and creeks, fringed with belts of 

 scrub. In these scrubs I saw the white-apple and 

 the crimson scitamineous plant seen near Rocking- 

 ham Bay ; scattered over the country were a few 

 cedar trees and Moreton Bay chesnuts, and some 

 very fine timber trees belonging to the natural order 

 Myrtacece, upwards of sixty feet high, and three to 

 four feet in diameter, with fine straight trunks. 



Oct. 26th to 2Sth. — We travelled over stony 

 hills, the tops of which were occasionally composed 

 of white flint ( ?), with rusty veins running through it. 

 On the sides of the hills were broken rocks con- 

 taining mica, hornblende, and crystals of quartz. 

 The grass on these hills had all been newly burned. 



Oct. 29th. — Sunday; prayers at eleven o'clock. 

 We this day shot three small wallabies, which were 

 a great treat to us. 



Oct. 30th. — This day Luff was taken very lame, 

 being- seized with severe pain and stiffness in the 

 right leg; he was quite unable to walk, so we 

 burned the other two round tents to enable him to 

 ride. 



Nov. l.st and 2nd. — We again had to kiU a 

 horse which was too weak, and disposed of it as we 

 had our former ones. 



Wov. 3rd. — We were cutting throug-h scrub all 

 day, intersected by deep gullies and rocky hills ; we 

 crossed a small river, with very uneven rocky bottom, 

 about three feet deep ; where we crossed it, it was 



