I proceeded round the S.W.angle, and then, taking a northerly course, got down to the bottom of the first great marsh, thus completing the circuit of them.

I did not return to the camp until after 10 p.m., having crossed the river at day-light, nor did we procure any water from the time we left the stream to the moment of our recrossing it.
WALLIS'S PONDS.
Having completed our various arrangements, and closed our letters, we struck our tents on the morning of the 7th March; we remained, however, to witness the departure of Riley's party for Wellington Valley, and then left the Macquarie on an E.N.E.course for Wallis's Ponds, and made them at about 14 miles.

They undoubtedly empty themselves into the marshes, and are a continuation of that chain of ponds on which I left the party in Mr.Hume's charge.

About a mile from Mount Harris, we passed a small dry creek, that evidently lays the country under water in the wet seasons.
There was a blue-gum flat to the eastward of it, which we crossed, and then entered a brush of acacia pendula and box.

The soil upon the plain was an alluvial deposit; that in the brushes was sandy.