48 SURFACE OF THE COUNTRY. [1820. 
their watery treasures. For this change we were 
not prepared, as the evening before had appeared 
so favourable. The rain had not only rendered the 
ground but also the tent and waggons very damp. 
A Matchappee was affected with a dangerous sore 
throat, peculiar to the climate, from which few 
recover, I was teazed with tooth-ache, and 
others with colds and coughs. These, with the 
exhausted state of our provisions, made us all 
desirous to get forward on our journey. However 
our patience was not long tried, for about half 
past nine a.m. the clouds in the N. and N. W., 
from whence the rain came, began to clear away, 
so that by ten we were able to proceed. 
The first three hours we travelled over long 
grass and a pavement of rock as before, but 
without a bush. After this our course led us oc- 
casionally among bushes, and over two or three 
low swells in the ground covered with trees 
and tall bushes. These swells generally ex- 
tended from ,S. to N. farther than could be seen. 
At half past four p. m. we found a pool containing 
excellent water, into which a small brook ran, and 
within a few yards a small wood of trees, ca- 
pable of affording us shelter from the cold wind 
that then blew, (Therm. 54 ;) plenty of rotten 
timber for fires was also at hand. Here we took 
our station for the night. All day we had been 
looking out for hills to the westward, but none 
