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in my map by the name of the Lindesay Range. These 
mountains terminate abruptly on the west, and I entered a 
fine open country at their base, from whence plains (or ra- 
ther open ground of gentle undulation) extended westward 
as far as could be seen. On turning these mountains I 
directed my course northward, and to the eastward of north, 
into the country beyond them, in search of the river Kin- 
dur ; and I reached a river flowing westward, the bed of 
which was deep, broad, and permanent, but in which there 
was not then much water. 
“ The marks of inundation on trees, and on the adjoin- 
ing high ground, proved that its floods rose to an extraor- 
dinary height ; and from the latitude, and also from the 
general direetion of its course, I considered this to be the 
river which Mr. Cunningham named the Gwydir, on cross- 
ing it sixty miles higher, on his route to Moreton Bay. I 
descended this river, and explored the country on its left 
bank for about eighty miles to the westward, when I found 
that its general course was somewhat to the southward of 
west. This river received no addition from the mountains 
over that part of its left bank traversed by me ; and the heat 
being intense, the stream was at length so reduced that I 
could step across it. The banks had become low, and the 
bed much contracted, being no longer gravelly, but muddy. 
I therefore crossed this river and travelled northward, on a 
meridian line, until, in the latitude of 29" 2', I came upon 
the largest river I had yet seen. The banks were earthy 
and broken, the soil being loose, and the water of a white 
