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wiiaby’s station. 
probable adventures they might encounter. The loads had 
by this time settled properly, and our provisions proved 
of the very best quality, so that no possible improvement 
could have been made for the better. 
On the morrow we pushed up the southernmost of the 
valleys, at the junction of which we had encamped, having 
moderate hills on either side of us. At the head of the valley 
we crossed a small dividing range into another valley, and 
halted for the night, on the banks of a creek from the west- 
ward, as we found it impossible to reach Whaby’s station, 
as we had intended, before sunset. Nothing could exceed 
the luxuriance of the vegetation in this valley, but the 
water of the creek was so impregnated with iron, as to be 
almost useless. Being anxious to obtain a view of the sur- 
rounding country, I ascended a hill behind the camp, just 
as the sun was sinking, a time the most favourable for the 
object I had in view. The country, broken into hill and 
dale, seemed richer than any tract I had as yet surveyed ; 
and the beauty of the near landscape was greatly heighten- 
ed by the mountainous scenery to the S. and S.E. Both 
the laxmania, and zanthorea were growing around me ; 
but neither appeared to be in congenial soil. The face of 
the hill was very stony, and I found, on examination, that 
a great change had taken place in the rock-formation, the 
granite ranges having given place to chlorite schist. 
We reached Whaby’s about 9 a. rn. of the morning of the 
27th, and received every attention and civility from him. 
The valley in which we had slept opened upon an extensive 
plain, to the eastward of which the Morumbidgec formed 
