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CRYSTAL BROOK. 
From our present encampment a very high and 
pointed hill was visible far to the N.N. W. this 
from the lofty way in which it towered above the 
surrounding hills, I named Mount Remarkable. 
Our latitude at noon was 33° 25' 26" S. 
A very beautiful shrub was found this afternoon 
upon the Rocky river, in full flower : it was a tall 
slender stalked bush, about six or eight feet high, 
growing almost in the bed of the river, with leaves 
like a geranium, and fine delicate lilac flowers about 
an inch and a half in diameter ; here, too, we found 
the first gum-trees seen upon any of the watercourses 
for many miles, as all those we had recently crossed, 
traversed open plains which were quite without 
either trees or shrubs of any kind. 
June 28. — This morning we passed through a 
country of an inferior description, making a 
short stage to a watercourse, named by me the 
“ Crystal Brook it was a pretty stream emanating 
from the hills to the north-east, and marked in its 
whole course through the plains to the northward 
and westward by lines of gum-trees. The pure 
bright water ran over a bed of clear pebbles, with 
a stream nine feet wide, rippling and murmuring 
like the rivulets of England — a circumstance so 
unusual in the character of Australian watercourses, 
that it interested and pleased the whole party far 
more than a larger river would have done ; this 
characteristic did not, however, long continue, for 
like, all the streams we had lately crossed, the water 
