Above it a long line of hills, broken by deep and rugged stony gullies, and with steep sides, extends to the eastward (that also being the upward course of the river).

On gaining the crest of these hills we found ourselves, as usual, on a flat table land, notwithstanding the broken faces of the hills themselves.

There was only a narrow space between them, and a low thick brush of eucalyptus to the north.

The soil was, as usual, a mixture of clay and sand, with small rounded nodules of limestone.

From this ground, the view to the south as a medium point, was over as dark and monotonous a country as could well be described.