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d’urban’s group. 
To the westward, as a medium point, the horizon was 
unbroken, and the eye wandered over an apparently endless 
succession of wood and plain. A brighter green than usual 
marked the course of the mountain torrents in several places, 
but there was no glittering light among the trees, no smoke 
to betray a water hole, or to tell that a single inhabitant was 
traversing the extensive region we were overlooking. We 
were obliged to return to the plain on which we had break- 
fasted, and to sleep upon it. 
D’Urban’s Group is of compact sandstone formation. 
Its extreme length is from E. S. E. to W . N. W., and can- 
not be more than from seven to nine miles, whilst its breadth 
is from two to four. The central space forms a large basin, 
in which there are stinted pines and eucalyptus scrub, amid 
huge fragments of rocks. It rises like an island from 
the midst of the ocean, and as I looked upon it from the 
plains below, I could without any great stretch of the 
imagination, picture to myself that it really was such. 
Bold and precipitous, it only wanted the sea to lave its 
base ; and I cannot but think that such must at no very 
remote period have been the case, and that the immense 
flat we had been traversing, is of comparatively recent 
formation. 
We reached the camp on the 28th of the month, by nearly 
the same route; and were happy to find that, after the 
few days’ rest they had enjoyed, there was a considerable 
Improvement in the animals. 
Our experience of the nature of the country to the south- 
