peel’s river. 
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and-a-half above the spot where Mr, Oxley crossed this 
river. 
“I found the general course of the Peel below Wala- 
moul to be nearly west ; and after tracing this- river down- 
wards twenty-two miles (in direct distance), I crossed it at 
an excellent ford, named Wallamburra. I then traversed 
the extensive plain of Mulluba ; and leaving that of Coonil 
on the right, extending far to the north-east, we passed 
through a favourable interval of what I considered Hard- 
wicke’s Range, the general direction of this range being 
two points west of north, 
“ On passing through this gorge, which, from the name 
of a hill on the south side, may be named Ydire, I crossed 
a very extensive tract of flat country, on which the wood 
consisted of iron-bark and acacia pendula ; this tract being 
part of a valley evidently declining to the north-west, 
which is bounded on the south by the Liverpool Range, 
and on the south-west by the extremities from the same. 
On the west, at a distance of twenty-two miles from Hard- 
wicke’s Range, there stands a remarkable isolated hill 
named Bounalla ; and towards the lowest part of the conn- 
try, and in the direction in which all the waters tend, there 
is a rocky peak named Tangulda. On the north, a low 
range (named Wowa), branching westerly from Hard- 
wicke’s Range, bounds on that side this extensive basin, 
which includes Liverpool Plains. Peel’s River is the 
principal stream, and receives, in its course, all the waters 
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