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campbell’s range. 
Campbell’s range,)* are many springs of water, 
and the scenery is as picturesque as the district is 
fertile. Many of the hills are well rounded, very 
grassy, and moderately well timbered even to their 
summits. This is one of the prettiest and most 
desirable localities for either sheep or cattle, that I 
have yet seen in the unoccupied parts of South Aus- 
tralia, whilst the distance from Adelaide by land, 
does not at the most exceed one hundred and twenty 
miles.f The watercourse near our camp took its 
course through an open valley, between bare hills on 
which there was neither tree nor shrub for firewood 
and we were constantly obliged to go half a mile up 
a steep hill before we could obtain a few stunted 
bushes to cook with. As the watercourse approached 
the Broughton the country became much more abrupt 
and broken, and after its junction with that river, 
the stream wound through a succession of barren 
and precipitous hills, for about fifteen miles, at a 
general course of south-west; these hills were over- 
run almost everywhere with prickly grass and 
had patches of the Eucalyptus dumosa scattered 
over them at intervals. 
Up to the point where it left the hills, there were 
ponds of water in the bed of the Broughton, but upon 
leaving them the river changed its direction to the 
northward, passing through extensive plains and 
* After R. Campbell, Esq. M. C. of Sydney. 
f All this country, and for some distance to the north, is now 
occupied by stations. 
