Box-trees were thinly scattered over it, and among the polygonum, the crested pigeons were numerous.

These general appearances, together with a dip of country to the N.N.W., made us conclude that we were approaching the creek, and we accordingly intersected it on a N.N.E.
course, at about three miles' distance from where we had dined.

It had, however, undergone so complete a change, and had increased so much in size and in the height of its banks, that we were at a loss to recognise it.
Still, with all these favourable symptoms, there was not a drop of water in it.

But small shells lay in heaps in its bed, or were abundantly scattered over it; and we remarked that they differed from those on the plains of the Macquarie.

A circumstance that surprised us much, was the re-appearance of the flooded-gum upon its banks, and that too of a large size.