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NEW YEAR S CREEK. 
That a change of soil takes place to the westward of the 
creek, is obvious, from the change of vegetation, the most 
remarkable feature of which is the sudden check given to the 
further extension of the acacia pendula, which is not to be 
found beyond it, it being succeeded by another acacia of the 
same species and habits j neither do the plants of the che- 
nopedia class exist in the immediate vicinity of the range. 
I place these hills, as far as my observations will allow, 
in east Ion. 146» 32' 15", and in lat. 30" 21' south; the 
variation of the compass being 6® 40' easterly. 
As New Year’s Creek was leading northerly, it had been 
determined to trace it down as long as it should keep that 
course, or one to the westward of it. We broke up the 
camp, therefore, under the range, on the evening of the 
18th, and moved to the creek, about two miles north of 
the place at which we had before crossed it, with the 
intention of prosecuting our journey on the morrow. But 
both Mr. Hume and I were so fatigued that we were glad of 
an opportunity to rest, even for a single day. We remained 
stationary, therefore, on the 19th ; nor was I without hope 
that the natives whom we had surprised in the woods, 
would have paid us a visit, since Mr. Hume had met 
them in his search for Norman, and they had promised 
not only to come to us, but to do all in their power to find 
the man, whose footsteps some of them had crossed. They 
did not, however, venture near us ; and I rather attribute 
their having kept aloof, to the circumstance of Mr. Hume’s 
having fired a shot, shortly after he left them, as a signal 
