The prevailing timber appeared to be a species of eucalypti, with rough bark, of small size, and evidently languishing from the want of moisture.

The soil over which we travelled was far from bad, but there was a total absence of water upon it.

At 6 p.m.

Oxley's Table Land was distant from us about fifteen miles, bearing S.20 E.by compass.
We had not touched upon the creek from the time we left it in the morning, having wandered from it in a northerly direction, along a native path that we intersected, and that seemed to have been recently trodden, since footsteps were fresh upon it.

At sunset, we crossed a broad dry creek that puzzled us extremely, and were shortly afterwards obliged to stop for the night upon a plain beyond it.