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and I rode to the S.W. mountain, a distance of about forty 
miles, without crossing a brook or a creek, our way lead- 
ing through dense acacia brushes, and for the most part 
over a desert. We saw high lands from this mountain, 
which exceeds 1,300 feet in elevation, and is of sandstone 
formation, and thickly covered with stunted pine, in eight 
different points — the bearings of which are as follows : — 
Oxley’s Table Land, N. 40 E., distant 40 miles. 
Kengall Hill, due E. very distant. 
Conical Hill, S. 60 E. 
Highland, S.E. distance 30 miles. 
Highland, S. 30 E. distance 25 miles. 
Long Range, S. 16 E. distance 60 miles. 
Long Range, S. 72 W. distance 60 miles. 
Distant Range, S. 26 W. supposed. 
It was in vain, however, that we looked for water. The 
country to the north-west, was low and unbroken, and 
alternated with wood and plain. 
The country from New Year’s Range to the hill I had 
made, and which I called Oxley’s Table Land, had been 
very fair, with good soil in many places, but with a total 
want of water, except in the creeks, wherein the supply 
was both bad and uncertain ; on our second day’s journey 
from the former, we came to the creek on which we were 
moving, where it had a coarse granite bottom. The 
country around it improved very much in appearance, and 
there was abundance of good grass on the surface of it, in 
spite of the drought. On the right of this creek, a large 
plain stretches parallel to it for many miles, varying in 
quality of soil. Near Oxley’s Table Land, we passed over 
open forest, the prevailing timber of which was box. I 
