Shortly after crossing these, he found himself on an extensive plain, apparently subject to overflow.

The timber on it was chiefly of the blue-gum kind, and the ground was covered with shells.

He then thought he was approaching the Macquarie, and proceeded due west across the flat for about two miles.

At the extremity of it there was a hollow, which he searched in vain for water.

Ascending about thirty feet, he entered a thick brush of box and acacia pendula, which continued for fourteen miles, when it terminated abruptly, and extensive plains of good soil commenced, stretching from N.to S.as far as the eye could reach, on which there were many kangaroos.