16 Thirty Years 
Mr. Thomas Swayne, who with great kindness waited 
for us with the boat under his charge, at such places 
as he apprehended would be most difficult to pass. 
We encamped at sunset, completely jaded with toil. 
Our distance made good this day was twelve miles 
and a quarter. 
The labors of the 16th commenced at half-past five, 
and for some time the difficulty of getting the boats over 
‘the rapids way equal to what we experienced. yester- 
day. Having passed a small brook, however, termed 
Half-way Oreek, the river became deeper, and although 
rapid, it was smooth enough to be named by our 
Orkney boatmen Still-water. We were further re- 
lieved by the Company’s clerks consenting to take a 
few boxes of our stores into their boats. Still we 
made only eleven miles in the course of the day. 
The banks of Hill River are higher, and have a 
more broken outline, than those of Steel or Haye’s 
Rivers. The cliffs of alluvial clay rose in some places 
to the height of eighty or ninety feet above the 
stream, and were surmounted by hills about two hun- 
dred feet high, but the thickness of the wood pre- 
vented us from seeing far beyond the mere banks of 
the river. 
Sept. 17.—About half-past five in the morning we 
commenced tracking, and soon came to a ridge ot 
rock which cxtended across the stream. From thig 
