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Report of the Expedition 
and on waters which turned to the south-west. Should the creels 
I met in latitude 25 deg. 29 min., and which I called “ Robin, 
son’s Creek,” belong to the Condamine, the shed of waters her e 
would be one of the most curious which ever have been observed. 
The shallow channels which form the heads of Palm-tree Creelt 
(an easterly water) are scarcely a quarter of a mile distant froth 
the broad deep sandy bed of Robinson’s Creek, the latter turning 
to the south-west, the former collecting towards the east. Several 
sedgy swamps and lagoons, covered with water fowl, are found £tt 
the left bank of Robinson’s Creek. 
This creek comes from a hilly country, which, more to th e 
north-west, rises into ranges of considerable elevation, giving ris e 
to a great number of water-courses, creeks, and gullies, all col. 
lecting into Robinson’s Creek. The whole country is openly 
timbered, the ridges at the upper part of it in part covered with 
silver-leaved iron-bark, well adapted for sheep. Fine flats extend 
along its banks, where I first met it in latitude 25 deg. 28 min. 
I passed the principal range of Robinson’s Creek in latitude 25 
deg. 19 min., and came again to waters which turn to the west 
and south-west. In pursuing a north-west course, I entered into 
a knot of mountains, from which the waters flowed in almost 
every direction : to the east, north-east, north, west, and south. 
Only long and tedious reconnoitres enabled me to find a passage 
through this intricate country. And even these would have been, 
perhaps, unsuccessful, if Providence had not thrown, by an acci¬ 
dent, some light on our dark and difficult path. In following a 
north-easterly creek to its head, I found an easy mountain pass, 
and came on the heads of a creek going to the northward. These 
are in latitude 25 deg. 5 min. In latitude 24 deg. 54 min., the 
creek, which I called “ Zamia Creek,” from fine arborescent 
zamias (or cycas) growing on its flats, turns to the north-east. 
Its deep channel gets very shallow as it enters a flat country of 
very great extent, almost unbounded by any rise towards the 
north east. The creek is accompanied by small flats and thick 
scrub. But the flats extend more and more, and the scrub recedes 
as it approaches the large flat country, which appears openly 
timbered, and well grassed in the proper season. When we went 
