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Report of the Expedition 
or the division of the waters, is not very distant, as I found the 
primitive rocks almost invariably connected with at least the 
ascent to a table land. 
Between the Van Alphen and the Abel Tasman (latitude 16 deg. 
29 min.) I passed a big creek (latitude 16 deg. 35 min.,) and a 
small river well supplied with water, which I called “ the Calvert, 
in commemoration of the good services of my trusty companion, 
Mr. James Calvert. Sandstone rock crept frequently out in the 
open stringybark forest, which covers the greater part of the 
intervening country. Sandstone ranges were seen to the west 
and north-west. The lower part of the Abel Tasman forms a 
broad sheet of salt water. The banks are steep, lined with man¬ 
grove and several trees peculiar to the change of fresh and salt 
water, as I feel convinced that during the rainy season the freshes 
go far out into the sea. The flats along the river are well grassed, 
openly timbered with blood-wood, stringy-bark, and white gum. 
In latitude 16 deg. 29 min. the water is fresh, running strong over 
a rocky bed, the stream is about three feet deep, fifteen to twenty 
yards broad, the whole bed from bank to bank three hundred 
yards. 
Between the Abel Tasman and the Seven Emu River (longitude 
137 deg. 5 min., latitude 16deg. 12 min.,) I crossed seven creeks, 
containing pools of water, some of them brackish ; four had a fine 
supply of it. The whole country is a succession of tea-tree and 
cypress-pine thickets and scrubs. A fine open well-grassed 
country extends along “ the Seven Emu River,” which received 
its name from numerous flocks of emus, seven of which were 
hunted down, as we travelled eight miles up its banks. We met 
soon the fresh-water stream, which we crossed at a black-fellow’s 
well and a fishery. 
Between the Seven Emu River and the Robinson (latitude 
16 deg. 8 min., longitude 136deg. 43min.) several small waterless 
creeks were met, after having passed the fine country near the 
river and some miserable scrub. A fine path of the natives led 
me to a large but waterless creek, the banks of which were 
covered with cypress pine and cycas groves (the cycas, a tree of 
the aspect of the palm, thirty to fifty feet high and higher, fre- 
