MYALL PONDS. 
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siderable number. At night too after dark we found 
that a party of natives were watching also for an 
opportunity to participate in so indispensable a 
necessary, which having secured, they departed, and 
we saw nothing more of them. I observed the 
latitude at this camp to be 33° 7' 14" S. and the 
variation 8° 53' E. 
June 30. — Our road to day was much better, and 
less interrupted by gullies, though we still kept 
close under Flinders range. We traversed a great 
extent of plain land which was generally stony, but 
grassy, and tolerably well adapted for sheep runs. 
Several watercourses take their rise from this range, 
with a westerly direction towards the gulf, these were 
all dry when we crossed them, but their course was 
indicated by gum trees, and as some of the channels 
were wide and large, and had strong traces of occa- 
sional high floods, I rode for many miles down 
one of the most promising, but without being able 
to find a drop of water. At noon our latitude was 
32° 59' 8", S. 
Late in the afternoon we reached a watercourse, 
which I had previously named “ Myall Ponds, 
from the many and beautiful Acacia pendula trees 
that grew upon its banks. There I knew we could 
get water, and at once halted the party for the night. 
Upon going to examine the supply I was again 
disappointed at finding it so much less than when 
* Myall is in some parts of New Holland, the native name 
for the Acacia pendula. 
