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from More ton Bay to Port Easing ton. 
followed for several days. But as it turned too far to the south¬ 
west, 1 left it again, following my old course to the north-west, 
after having crossed a very rocky creek, well provided with water, 
and came again to a table land of the same description as the 
former, but sandstone rock crept out more frequently, and formed 
into rocky ranges, cut by deep gullies. From one of these ranges 
I had a view over the country before me, and I almost despaired 
of ever getting through it. Sandstone ridges behind sandstone 
ridges lifting their white rocky crests over the forest, deep gullies, 
with perpendicular walls, rocky creeks, with boulders loosely 
heaped in their beds, frequently interrupted by precipices over 
which the waters must form magnificent water-falls during the 
rainy season. 
I worked my way down to one of these creeks, and followed it 
along its bed, until a precipice between two mountain walls com¬ 
pelled me to leave it. Following a grassy lawn up to the north¬ 
ward, I came to a water-shed, and into another grassy lawn with 
a small creek, longitude 133 deg. 6 min., which brought me to 
the deep valley of a river coming from the east and going to the 
westward. It was difficult to get down the steep slopes; but 
once down, we found a fine provision of water in big holes, the 
water running through the loose pebbles which fill the bed. 
Having crossed the river, and following a northerly or north- 
north-westerly course, I passed again over the table-land, from 
which numerous creeks, one, two, and three miles distant from 
each other, went down to the westward. They generally take 
their origin from rocky ridges rising out of the level land. Fre¬ 
quently tea-tree swamps are at the head of these creeks. They 
soon become very rocky on both sides for half, two, and three 
miles, and open again on fine grassy flats, well provided with 
water, which is found in deep puddlelioles of the creeks. Still 
further down they become rocky again, deep gullies join them 
from both sides, higher or lower precipices interrupt their course, 
and, at last, arrived at the border of the table-land, a fine broad 
valley is deep below them, and their waters rush over a perpendi¬ 
cular wall of five hundred or eight hundred feet high, down into 
