A new hawk and a few parrots were all the birds we shot; and if I except another new and beautiful species of Grevillia, we added nothing to our botanical collections.

The geological formation was such as I have already described--a compact quartz of a dirty white.

Of this adamantine rock all the hills were now composed.
A remarkable feature in the geology of the hills we had recently visited was, as I have remarked, that they were covered with the same productions and the same stones as the plains below, of which they seemed to have formed a part.

Milky quartz was scattered over them, although no similar formation was visible; of manganese, basalt, and ironstone, with other substances, there were now no indications.

None of these fragments had been rounded by attrition, but still retained their sharp edges and seemed to be little changed by time.
Mr.Poole informed me, that the day he returned to the party he proceeded towards the little range I had directed him to examine; in which, I should observe, both he and Mr.Browne thought there might be water, as they had passed to the westward of it, on their last journey towards the hills, and had then noticed it.