devil’s glen. 
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place, and was not inaptly named by the men, the 
“ Devil’s Glen;” looking down from the table land 
we were upon, the valley beneath appeared occupied 
by a hundred little hills of steep ascent and rounded 
summits, whilst through their pretty glens, flowed 
the winding stream, shaded by many a tree and 
shrub — the whole forming a most interesting and 
picturesque scene. 
The bed of the watercourse was over an 
earthy slate, and the water had a sweetish taste. 
Like most of the Australian rivers, it consisted 
only of ponds connected by a running stream, and 
even that ceased to flow a little beyond where we 
struck it, being lost in the deep sandy channel 
which it then assumed, and which exhibited in 
many places traces of very high floods. Below our 
camp the banks were 50 to 60 feet high, and the 
width from 60 to 100 yards, its course lay through 
plains to the south-west, over which patches of 
scrub were scattered at intervals, and the land in its 
vicinity was of an inferior description, with much 
prickly grass growing upon it. 
Upwards, the Rocky river, after emerging from 
the gorges in which we found it, descended through 
very extensive plains from the north-north-east; 
there was plenty of water in its bed, and abundance 
of grass over the plains, so that in its upper parts 
it offers fine and extensive runs for either cattle or 
sheep, and will, I have no doubt, ere many years 
be past, be fully occupied for pastoral purposes. 
