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from Moreton Bay to Port Essinyton. 
“ the Burdekin,” as an acknowledgment of the liberal support 
which I received from Mr. Burdekin in forming my expedition. 
Fine flats accompany the Suttor in its lower course. The 
grasses are very various and dense. There is particularly one 
grass, the oaten grass of the Isaacks, which grows to a conside¬ 
rable height, and the stem of which is very juicy and sweet. 
But besides this, there are at least twenty different grasses, with 
various herbs which cattle and horses were fond to feed upon. 
Water is abundant, the water-holes are often long and broad, and 
covered with ducks. It is even running five miles above its junc¬ 
tion with the Burdekin. The pandanus was first observed here; 
and in its bed, round old fire-places of black fellows, we found 
the empty shell of the fruit of cycas, the tree of which we first 
observed at the Upper Burdekin. A new species of grevillea was 
equally found, and the poplar-gum was frequent. The drooping 
tea-tree, which grows to a great size in its bed, yields an excellent 
timber. The blood-wood and iron-bark are generally of a good 
size for building huts. There was also no want of timber at the 
Isaacks nor at the Burdekin. 
I travelled along the Burdekin from latitude 20 deg. 37 min. 
13 sec. to latitude 18 deg. 32min. 37 sec., through 2 deg. 4 min. 
36 sec. of latitude, in a north-west by west course, and I had to 
leave it, probably still about fifty to sixty miles distant from its 
head, as it turned too much to the northward and eastward. 
Almost the whole extent of its banks is available for pasturing 
purposes. 
The character of the country is various; fine iron-bark and box 
flats, open ridges, high ranges off the river, sometimes approaching 
the river, and rendering the passage very difficult. Those who 
follow me will find easier roads off the river. The river is supplied 
with abundance of water by living springs and brooks coming 
from a basaltic table-land. Creeks provided with water-holes, 
with broad sandy beds lined with casuarinas, are numerous. At 
latitude 20 deg. 8 min. 26 sec., at 20 deg. 0 min. 36 sec., at 
19deg. 49min. 19sec., at 19deg. 13 min., at 18deg. 59min., 
at 18 deg. 52 min., large creeks and rivers join the Burdekin. 
From the Suttor up to latitude 19 deg. 58 min. 11 sec. the 
